8 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
noun a hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere)
originFrom French tartuffe, from the protagonist Tartuffe (from Italian tartufo (“truffle”)) in the play of the same name by Molière. Doublet of tartufo.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0