8 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
originFrom noon + time, perhaps an innovation of earlier English noontide (“noontime”), from Middle English noon tijd, from Old English nōntīd (“noontime”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English merian, merion (“noontime”) from Old French meriiene, merīane (“noontime”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0