jawbone
"jawbone" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“jawbone” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #42,719 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #42,719
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The bone of the lower jaw; the mandible.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jawbone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #42,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jawbone” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for jawbone is 7 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #42,719 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for jawbone, with forms such as "ajwbone", "jabwone", and "jawbbone". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "jawline", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English jawe bone, a partial calque of earlier Middle English chawlbone, chawylbon, chavylbone, chawle boon, chavyl bon (“jaw bone”, literally “chavel bone”), see chavel-bone; equivalent to jaw + bone. The correct English form is jawbone, spelled J-A-W-B-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1The bone of the lower jaw; the mandible.
- 2Any of the bones in the lower or upper jaw.
- 3A shaken musical instrument (an idiophone) made from the jawbone of an animal and shaken such that the teeth vibrate in their sockets to produce sound.
- 4Credit.
Etymology
From Middle English jawe bone, a partial calque of earlier Middle English chawlbone, chawylbon, chavylbone, chawle boon, chavyl bon (“jaw bone”, literally “chavel bone”), see chavel-bone; equivalent to jaw + bone.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ajwbone,jabwone,jawbbone,jawbnoe,jawboen,jawbonne,jawobne,jawwbone,jjawbone,jwabone
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jawbone - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “jawbone”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is J-A-W-B-O-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “jawline” - see the side-by-side comparison. jawbone vs jawline
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.