6 letters · 20 points in Scrabble
originFrom Middle English quich, a palatalized variant of quike, quyke, from Old English cwice, from Proto-West Germanic *kwikwā, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwǭ. Cognate with Dutch kweek, German Low German Queek, German Quecke.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0