6 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
originFrom a Catawba word, most likely yap, yop, yą (“tree”), with the second element being either a diminutive suffix or pą (“leaf”) (resulting in the compound yąpą); alternatively, perhaps directly from a longer form of the word for leaf, 'yap'hâ.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0