cheekbone
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 20
- Words With Friends
- 22
- Letters
- 9
Definition of cheekbone
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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The small prominent bone of the cheek.
“She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.”
“A youngish-looking man came up to him, and aggressive-looking type with a hook mouth, a lantern nose, and small beady little cheekbones.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English chekebon, chekbone, from Old English ċēacbān (“cheekbone”); equivalent to cheek + bone. Compare Dutch kaakbeen (“jawbone”).
Words you can make from cheekbone
73 playable · top: BEECHEN (14 pts)
Best play beechen 14 points6-letter words
2 words5-letter words
8 words4-letter words
27 words- HECK 13 pts
- HOCK 13 pts
- BECK 12 pts
- BOCK 12 pts
- HOKE 11 pts
- HONK 11 pts
- OKEH 11 pts
- BONK 10 pts
- COKE 10 pts
- CONK 10 pts
- KNOB 10 pts
- NECK 10 pts
- NOCK 10 pts
- CHON 9 pts
- ECHE 9 pts
- ECHO 9 pts
- OCHE 9 pts
- KEEN 8 pts
- KENO 8 pts
- KNEE 8 pts
- HONE 7 pts
- BEEN 6 pts
- BENE 6 pts
- BONE 6 pts
- CONE 6 pts
- EBON 6 pts
- ONCE 6 pts
3-letter words
23 words2-letter words
12 wordsHooks
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