jean

Plural: jeans

Noun

A durable twilled cotton fabric, commonly used for clothing.
(usually plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear
a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric
Denim.

Examples

She wore a tattered jean jacket.
The word JEAN felt as sturdy and reliable on the Words With Friends board as the fabric itself.

Origin / Etymology

From the Middle English Gene (“Genoa”), from the Old French Jannes. Bleu de Gênes (“Genovese blue”) was a blue dye made in Genoa used to tint the denim cloth produced in Nîmes (de Nîmes). Doublet of Genoa and Geneva and distantly related to knee.

Synonyms

blue jean, denim, dungaree

Scrabble Score: 11

jean: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
jean: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
jean: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

jean: valid Words With Friends Word