Is FAX a Scrabble word?
Yes. FAX is a valid Scrabble word in both tournament lists, NWL2023 and Collins, and in ENABLE. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends.
Meaning The face.
Noun 2 meanings
The face.
A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.
Verb 1 meaning
To send a document by means of a fax machine.
Etymology
From Middle English fax, from Old English feax (“hair, head of hair”), from Proto-West Germanic *fahs, from Proto-Germanic *fahsą (“hair, mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *poḱsom (“hair”, literally “that which is combed, shorn, or plucked”), from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“to comb, shear, pluck”).
FAX at a glance
FAX has 3 letters and scores 13 points in Scrabble (F 4 + A 1 + X 8) and 13 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #12,225 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins (older SOWPODS edition).
Words ending in -FAX
More endings- CARFAX18
- TELEFAX17
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