8 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
noun a strong liking
originUnadapted borrowing from French penchant, present participle of pencher (“to tilt, to lean”), from Middle French, from Old French pengier (“to tilt, be out of line”), from Vulgar Latin *pendicāre, a derivative of Latin pendere (“to hang”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0