jackstones

1. 1.

   game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks

   Synonymsjack

   Broadergame equipment
2. 2.

   a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball

   Synonymsjacksknucklebones

   Broaderchild's game

Other forms of jackstones

plural

jackstoneses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about jackstones

What does jackstones mean?

jackstones means "game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jackstones?

jackstones has 2 syllables: jack-stones. The stress falls on "jack".

What is another word for jackstones?

Close synonyms include jack, jacks, knucklebones. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jackstones a common word?

jackstones is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.