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screwface

noun, verb

screwface is spelled S-C-R-E-W-F-A-C-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, screwface means “A contorted facial expression of anger, frustration, or aggression” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of screwface is screwfaces.

How many letters and syllables are in screwface?

Letters9: S-C-R-E-W-F-A-C-E
In writingabout once in every 95 million words; the 313,259th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is screwface?

Screwface appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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 screwface?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-screwface.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of screwface

  • screwfaces plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • screwfacing participle, present
  • screwfaced participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does screwface mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    slangA contorted facial expression of anger, frustration, or aggression.

verb

  1. 1

    slangTo make a screwface (at someone).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does screwface come from?

From screw + face.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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