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Is jawbox a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word jawbox is a Scrabble US word. The word jawbox is worth 25 points in Scrabble:

J8A1W4B3O1X8

Is jawbox a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word jawbox is a Scrabble UK word and has 25 points:

J8A1W4B3O1X8

Is jawbox a Words With Friends word?

The word jawbox is NOT a Words With Friends word.

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Valid words made from Jawbox

You can make 25 words from 'jawbox' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.


6 letters words from 'jawbox'

JAWBOX 25 

3 letters words from 'jawbox'

ABO 5BAO 5
BOA 5BOW 8
BOX 12JAB 12
JAW 13JOB 12
JOW 13OBA 5
WAB 8WAX 13
WOX 13 

2 letters words from 'jawbox'

AB 4AW 5
AX 9BA 4
BO 4JA 9
JO 9OB 4
OW 5OX 9
WO 5 

Definitions and meaning of jawbox

jawbox

Alternative forms

  • jaw-box

Etymology

jaw +‎ box. In old tenements usually placed next to the kitchen window, enabling housewives to talk ("jaw") to each other across the tenement courtyard while doing washing up.

Noun

jawbox (plural jawboxes)

  1. (Scotland, dated) A tenement sink.
    Synonym: jaw-hole
    • 1983, Bernard MacLaverty, Cal (chapter 3, p.90 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition)
      After a week he had to accept that he was growing a black beard, not because he wanted one, but because he could think of no way of shaving. There was a jaw-box in the tiny kitchen but no taps.

Source: wiktionary.org
  • (Scots) a sink.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)