6 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
noun a sample piece of cloth
originFrom earlier Northern England dialectal swache (“the counterfoil or counterstock of a tally”) (1512); further etymology unknown. Cognate with Scots swach, swatch. Compare English swath, swathe. Compare also Old English swæcc (“taste; flavour; odour; fragrance”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0