JAWLESS is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. JAWLESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 20 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept JAWLESS?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 54 / 100
Our own measure of how useful JAWLESS is to know. It scores 17 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for JAWLESS
No single letter turns JAWLESS into another word.
How JAWLESS scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in JAWLESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| j | 1 | 1 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,088 thousand.
What does JAWLESS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Having no jaws.
Jawless is used in zoology for the oldest group of vertebrates, such as lampreys, whose mouths are round suckers instead of hinged bites. Outside science, a jawless face in a story or drawing can suggest a weak or unfinished look. The meaning is always literal: the jaw is missing.
How JAWLESS is used
Jawless is chiefly a zoological term for fishes without jaws, like lampreys.
- The lamprey is a jawless fish that clings to its prey.
- Fossils of jawless creatures date back hundreds of millions of years.
- The skull in the museum case was oddly jawless.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of JAWLESS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
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Common questions about JAWLESS
- Is JAWLESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts JAWLESS, where it scores 20 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is JAWLESS worth?
- JAWLESS is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends.
- What does JAWLESS mean?
- Having no jaws.
- What letters can be added to JAWLESS?
- No single letter can be added to JAWLESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of JAWLESS:
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