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JAWBONES
Definition of JAWBONES
noun
plural of jawbone
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Other senses
JAWBONES carries 2 further meanings.
noun
Plural form of jawbone.
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jawbone.
Word DNA
JAWBONES inherits its ancestry from its root, JAWBONE.
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,235)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, JAWBONE · 2 relatives in the game
JAWBONES in a sentence
“Detectives had to dig three times before finding a casket containing the victims' jawbones, buried beneath another containing infants and various body and animal parts.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
JAWBONES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 80 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 43, 2 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
JAWBONES starts with J and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABEJNOSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start JAWBON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 43
Could you have found JAWBONES?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 43 - and most players walked straight past it.
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