3-Letter Words with X

Three-letter words with X let you play a high-value letter in a tight spot. Most are familiar (box, fix, tax, wax), but a few are worth learning: a zax is a hatchet for trimming roof slates, a pyx is a container for Communion bread, kex is the dry stalk of a plant and gox is gaseous oxygen.

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X can sit in the middle too, as in axe, oxo and oxy, or lead the word, as in xis, the plural of the Greek letter xi. Use the filters below to see only the words that start or end with X.

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Definitions from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0), shortened.