What JAWS Means
JAWS is a form of JAW, which means:
- verb: talk socially without exchanging too much information“the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze”
- verb: talk incessantly and tiresomely
- noun: the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth
- noun: the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
JAWS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as J8 A1 W4 S1.
Words Made From The Letters In JAWS
6 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
3 letter words (3)
2 letter words (3)
Longer Words Containing JAWS
JAWS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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