jones: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 12 letter points · starts with J · ends with S
Meaning of jones
noun
- US, slang
An addiction or intense craving.
Example: I’ve got a basketball jones!
- US, archaic, slang
Heroin.
Listed forms: joneses.
Source: Wiktionary — jones.
verb
- US, slang, transitive, usually
To have an intense craving for something.
Example: I’m jonesing for some basketball.
- US, intransitive, slang
To binge on cocaine or alcohol.
Listed forms: joneses, jonesing, jonesed.
Source: Wiktionary — jones.
verb
- form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
third-person singular simple present indicative of jone
Base or related entry: jone.
Source: Wiktionary — jones.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is jones in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of jones
J(8) + O(1) + N(1) + E(1) + S(1) = 12 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of jones
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from jones
19 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in jones. Showing up to 24, longest first.