Words That End in X

Words ending in X tend to follow a few patterns. Short ones end in -ax, -ex, -ix, -ox or -ux, like wax, hex, mix, box and tux. Latin gives the -trix ending for a woman in a role, as in aviatrix and executrix, and medicine has -thorax words.

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Showing all 360 words. Tap a word for its definition.

14-letter words 1 word

13-letter words 3 words

12-letter words 4 words

11-letter words 7 words

10-letter words 17 words

9-letter words 19 words

8-letter words 62 words

7-letter words 75 words

6-letter words 68 words

5-letter words 47 words

4-letter words 22 words

3-letter words 32 words

2-letter words 3 words

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French plurals in -eaux, such as rouleaux, also appear, as do compounds built on box, fix and plex. Because X is a high-value letter in tile games, a word that ends in X can be a strong play when the X tile lands on a bonus square.

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