rawboned
/ɹɔːboʊnd/
"rawboned" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rawboned” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of a person: bony and thin; having prominent bones; gaunt.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rawboned · rawboned · English
rawboned · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rawboned |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɹɔːboʊnd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rawboned” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rawboned is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ɹɔːboʊnd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of a person: bony and thin; having prominent bones; gaunt.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rawboned, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From raw + boned. The correct English form is rawboned, spelled R-A-W-B-O-N-E-D.
Definition
- 1Of a person: bony and thin; having prominent bones; gaunt.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rawboned appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Deuce take lady S⸺; and if I know D⸺y, he is a rawboned faced fellow, not handsome, nor visibly so young as you say: she sacrifices two thousand pounds a year, and keeps only six hundred.
[…] and that rancid, raw-boned parson, Gillespie—how the plague did they pick him up?—one of the mutes told Bob it was he.
Etymology
From raw + boned.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.