jawbreaker
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.08 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A long, hard-to-pronounce word.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Cheeks bulging with stale jawbreakers, we would recite this line to each other, feeling that it sanctified our bond as two Jewish girls in a WASP neighborhood."
- "The word “callipygous” is something of a jawbreaker."
- "'This is not the Berlitz School of Languages, Head of S. If you want to show off your knowledge of foreign jawbreakers, be good enough to provide a crib. Better still, write in English.'"
- "Bendoff went pluckily forward, but only to receive a jawbreaker from Couper's left, […]"