6 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
noun a tortilla chip topped with cheese and chili-pepper and broiled
originBorrowed from Mexican Spanish nachos, from Nacho. Nacho is a common diminutive form of Ignacio (“Ignatius”) in Spanish. The Mexican creator of the dish, Ignacio Anaya (1895–1975), named it after himself in 1943: Nacho's Especiales.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0