jaws
/d͡ʒɔːz/noun, verb
jaws is spelled J-A-W-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 3.6 times per million words in written English, the 13,695th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, jaws means “The mouth” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in jaws?
| Letters | 4: J-A-W-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.6 times per million words; the 13,695th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is jaws?
Jaws appears 3.6 times per million words in written English, the 13,695th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce jaws?
- /d͡ʒɔːz/
- /d͡ʒɑz/
Jaws has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-jaws.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does jaws mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The mouth.
- 2
The borders of anything which has a mouthlike aspect.
Open the jaws of the wrench and wide as possible.
- 3
colloquialA contrarian.
- 4
plural of jaw
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of jaw
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).