jawbreaker
"jawbreaker" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“jawbreaker” is uncommon English (frequency #86,399 among 796 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,399
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A large, extremely hard, boiled candy, typically spherical.
Corpus desk
Index EN-jawbreaker · jawbreaker · English
jawbreaker · rank #86,399 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,399
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH Jambo
Nearest frequency peer: Jambo (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “jawbreaker”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- iterator
iterator
13,607 corpus weight
- ivermectin
ivermectin
13,605 corpus weight
- Jambo
Jambo
13,603 corpus weight
- jawbreaker
jawbreaker
13,602 corpus weight
- Jaworski
Jaworski
13,601 corpus weight
- Jeannine
Jeannine
13,599 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “jawbreaker” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jawbreaker |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “jawbreaker” in English
Rare enough to double-check
jawbreaker is uncommon English at frequency #86,399 among 796 “J” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for jawbreaker in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Compound of jaw + breaker. The correct English form is jawbreaker, spelled J-A-W-B-R-E-A-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1A large, extremely hard, boiled candy, typically spherical.
- 2A long, hard-to-pronounce word.
- 3A hard blow to the side of the face.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jawbreaker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
If somebody microwaves a large jawbreaker and nibbles on the outside, a crack can cause molten candy to burst out and cause painful burns. Exploding jawbreakers have been documented on television news and in police reports.
The word “callipygous” is something of a jawbreaker.
Etymology
Compound of jaw + breaker.
This word in other languages
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).