8 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
noun using more words than necessary
originLearned borrowing from Late Latin pleonasmus, from Ancient Greek πλεονασμός (pleonasmós), from πλεονάζω (pleonázō, “to be superfluous”), from πλείων (pleíōn, “more”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0