jerky
adjective / noun / verb
Meaning
- adjectiveCharacterized by physical jerking, or by sudden and uneven progress.
Example:
jerky flight
- nounLean meat cured and preserved by cutting into thin strips and air-drying in the sun.
- verbTo cure and preserve (meat) by drying it, making jerky.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Common
- #1,542 of 8,600 five-letter words by how often they're used
- Can be a Play Five answer
- As a first guess
- Tests likely letters better than 33% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 1 · Different letters: 5 · Repeated letters: None