5 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
originFrom Punjabi ਯੱਕਾ (yakkā), usually referring to an ace (a type of playing card) or a horse-drawn cart, but can also be translated into the English expletive fuck. However, the slang usage of the term is said to be a corruption of Yankee.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0