-x
/ks/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.20 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
1
Letters
2
Syllables
1
Unique Chars
Meaning
suffix
Used to replace a /ks/ sound, especially in monosyllabic words ending in -cks or -ks.
American usage; Informal
suffix
An abbreviation marker.
suffix
Abbreviation of -cross.
Example Sentences
- "I teach all of the 30x classes."
- "blax (“blacks”), clox (“clocks”), fax (“facts”), folx (“folks”), hax (“hacks”), pix (“pics”), punx (“punks”), shox (“shocks”), snax (“snacks”), sox (“socks”), stix (“sticks”), tix (“tickets”), trax (“tracks”)"
- "Dx (“diagnosis”), elex (“election”), Hx (“history”), pax (“passenger”), RX (“receive”), TX (“transmit”)"
- "alumnx, Chicanx, Latinx"
Etymology
The letter x is prototypically pronounced [ks] in English; it therefore serves as a convenient shorthand for the digraphs (cs, ks, etc.) or trigraphs (cks etc.) that would otherwise represent that consonant cluster.