4 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
originBorrowed from Latin pepō, from Ancient Greek πέπων (pépōn, “large melon”), from πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”), from πέπτω (péptō, “ripen”). Doublet of pumpion; compare pumpkin.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0