7 letters · 18 points in Scrabble
adjective having an agreeably pungent taste
adjective engagingly stimulating or provocative
adjective attracting or delighting
originBorrowed from Middle French piquant (“pricking, stimulating, irritating”), present participle of piquer, possibly from Old French pikier (“to prick, sting, nettle”). Doublet of picong. Related to pike.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0