10 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
adjective being essentially equal to something
originFirst attested in English in 1628. Either inherited from an unattested Middle English borrowing from Anglo-Norman tant amount, from amunter, from tant (“as much”) amonter (“to amount to”) or borrowed in the early 17th century from Italian tanto montare (“to amount to as much”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0