jawbreaking
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Very difficult to pronounce.
Example Sentences
- "Lord Cockburn, whose forte was not the civil law, affected to listen attentively and take ample notes, when, at last, on Mr Brodie citing some German civilian with a jawbreaking name, his lordship interrupting him asked, […]"
- "If he had, he would probably write and talk in a jawbreaking technical language that we ordinary mortals could not more understand readily than we can work a cross-word puzzle without resorting to the dictionary."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more jawbreaking (comparative)
most jawbreaking (superlative)