6 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
noun a straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges
originBorrowed from Middle French rapiere, from Middle French (espee) rapiere, from Old French rapiere, raspiere, from Spanish raspadera (“poker; raker; scraper”), from Spanish raspar (“to scrape”), of Germanic origin. More at rasp.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0