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Definition: Ax |
AxNoun1. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle. Verb1. Chop or split with an ax, as of wood. 2. Terminate, as of a project or a program; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ax" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Letter name specifying the dimensions of core, core barrels, and casing in the A-size and X-series wireline diamond drilling system having a core diameter of 30.1 mm and a hole diameter of 48 mm. The AX designation for coring bits has been replaced by the AW designation. Syn:AW. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
Ax | English | Annex | Language |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: AxSynonym: axe (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Sword, saber, broadsword, cutlass, falchion, scimitar, cimeter, brand, whinyard, bilbo, glaive, glave, rapier, skean, Toledo, Ferrara, tuck, claymore, adaga, baselard, Lochaber ax, skean dhu, creese, kris, dagger, dirk, banger, poniard, stiletto, stylet, dudgeon, bayonet; sword-bayonet, sword-stick; side arms, foil, blade, steel; ax, bill; pole-ax, battle-ax; gisarme, halberd, partisan, tomahawk, bowie knife; ataghan, attaghan, yataghan; yatacban; assagai, assegai; good sword, trusty sword, naked sword; cold steel. |
Cunning | Verb: be cunning; Adjective: have cut one's eyeteeth; contrive; (plan); live by one's wits; maneuver; intrigue, gerrymander, finesse, double, temporize, stoop to conquer, reculer pour mieux sauter, circumvent, steal a march upon; overreach; throw off one's guard; surprise; snatch a verdict; waylay, undermine, introduce the thin end of the wedge; play a deep game, play tricks with; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces; flatter, make things pleasant; have an ax to grind. |
Destruction | Deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut; disorganize; dismantle; (render useless); devour, swallow up, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate. |
Impulse | Hammer, sledge hammer, mall, maul, mallet, flail; ram, rammer; battering ram, monkey, pile-driving engine, punch, bat; cant hook; cudgel; (weapon); ax; (sharp). |
Scourge | Scaffold; block, ax, guillotine; stake; cross; gallows, gibbet, tree, drop, noose, rope, halter, bowstring; death chair, electric chair; gas chamber; lethal injection; firing squad; mecate. |
Sharpness | Wedge; knife edge, cutting edge; blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor; scalpel; bistoury, lancet; plowshare, coulter, colter; hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill; billhook, cleaver, cutter; scythe, sickle; scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter; sword; (arms); bodkin; (perforator); belduque, bowie knife, paring knife; bushwhacker; drawing knife, drawing shave; microtome; chisel, screwdriver blade; flint blade; guillotine. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I need him like the ax needs the turkey (The Lady Eve; writing credit: Monckton Hoffe; Preston Sturges) | |
Lyrics | Ax the peoples on my block, I'm as real as can be (No Diggity; performing artist: Blackstreet) | |
Clever | Ax Me About Ebonics. (references; author: unknown) Enraged Cow Injures Farmer with Ax (references; author: unknown) I worked in the woods as a lumberjack; but I just couldn't hack it, so they gave me the ax. (references; author: unknown) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Woodrow Wilson gestures toward "legislation" woodpile to Congress holding an ax. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The ax. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Indiana G.O.P. serves dinner of hammer and ax, Republican platform, to Hoosier voters. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Use th' ol' ax, mister, he's gettin' too big!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | James Gallon of Greensboro, Florida, and his son James, Jr., a Navy veteran, telling Earle W. Fisher, Research Assistant, in the Washington Bureau, NAACP, how they barely escaped with their lives after a severe beating with ax handles by a Florida mob, wh. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Breaking ice with flat side of ax, La Pryor, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mot Tucker making ax handles in living room of his corncrib home. Antioch, Mississippi. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Abraham Lincoln | If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax. |
Anne Bradstreet | Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | An ax, too. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable, for literary babes who never tire of testifying their delight in the vapid compound by appropriate googoogling. The words are commonly Saxon -- that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions. The man who writes in Saxon Is the man to use an ax on Judibras |
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| "Ax" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 53.85% of the time. "Ax" is used about 65 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 53.85% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Noun (proper) | 24.62% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Unclassified Items | 7.69% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (common) | 6.15% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4.62% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.08% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 65 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ax" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Ax | Last name | 130 | 58,674 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "ax": ax handle ♦ ax head ♦ Chip ax ♦ common ax ♦ Curtal ax ♦ Curtle ax ♦ Dayton ax ♦ executioner's ax ♦ fire ax ♦ fireman's ax ♦ get the ax ♦ grub ax ♦ have an ax to grind ♦ he has an ax to grind ♦ ice ax ♦ Jedding ax ♦ lochaber ax ♦ put the ax in the helve ♦ side ax ♦ slate ax ♦ the ax ♦ Western ax. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ax": ax-handle, ax-ing, Ax-les-thermes, ax-stone. | |
Ending with "ax": co-ax. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "ax"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shkurtoj (abbreviate, abridge, axe, buck, clip, compress, condense, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, detruncate, dock, epitomize, pare, poll, prune, razee, retrench, shorten, truncate, undercut, whittle down), shkurtim fondesh (axe), sëpatë (axe), pres me sëpatë (axe). (various references) | |
Arabic | فلق (axe, chap, cleavage, fission, segment, split), قطع (amputate, amputation, axe, break, cease, cessation, chop off, chopping off, cross, crossing, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut off, cut out, cutoff, cutting off, disconnect, discontinuance, discontinue, divide, dividing, end, exchange, fell, felling, forbid, halt, hew, hinder from, interrupt, intersect, lop, prevent from, scission, section, segment, segmentation, separate, sever, severance, slit, split, stop, sunder, suspend, suspension, tear, terminate, traverse), خفض (axe, bear, bring down, cut, debase, deplete, depreciation, depress, dropping, lessen, lower, lowering, mark down, minimize, pull down, put down, rebate, recline, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slake, slam, slash, step down, stitch down, subdue, turn down, whittle down), الفأس (axe), أزال (abstract, assuage, axe, bulldoze, clear, clear away, declassify, dismantle, dispel, eliminate, enucleate, eviscerate, excise, obliterate, preclude, put aside, relieve, remove, rest, retrench, rid, rub, rub out, settle, slip, smooth, stave off, suppress, take away), بلطة (axe). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | секира (axe, cleaver, pole-ax, sax), служа си с брадва (axe), топор (axe), окастряне (axe, paring, stripping, trimming), намаляване (abatement, abridgement, attenuation, axe, comminution, contraction, decrement, deduction, degression, depletion, diminution, dipping, impairment, lessening, reduction, relaxation, shrinkage, wane), брадва (axe). (various references) | |
Chamorro | gachai. (various references) | |
Chinese | 轴 (aXe, Axes, Axis, mandrel, mandril), 斧 (hatchet). (various references) | |
Cornish | ból. (various references) | |
Czech | sekera (axe). (various references) | |
Finnish | kirves (axe). (various references) | |
French | pioche piémontaise (grub ax), piémontoir (grub ax), hache d'incendie (fire ax). (various references) | |
German | mit der Axt niederschlagen. (various references) | |
Greek | τσεκούρι (axe). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fejsze (adze, axe, cleaver, hatchet), balta (axe). (various references) | |
Italian | ascia (adze, axe, hatchet), accetta (axe, chopper, hatchet, it is accepted, you accept), scure (axe), piccozza (axe, Mattock), mannaia (axe, chopper, cleaver, knife). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 斧鑿 (chisel and ax, elaboration, lucubration), 丁々 (clashing of swords, felling of trees, ringing of an ax), 丁丁 (clashing of swords, felling of trees, ringing of an ax). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふさく (chisel and ax, crop failure, elaboration, lucubration, poor crop), とうとう (after all, and so on, at last, calm, clashing of swords, felling of trees, finally, flowing, reaching a head, ringing of an ax, swift, vast, voluminous), ちょうちょう (butterfly, clashing of swords, felling of trees, major key, ringing of an ax, town headman). (various references) | |
Korean | 도끼 (aXe, Axes). (various references) | |
Mohawk | atoken. (various references) | |
Papago | hahsa. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | axay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | machado (axe), machadinha (axe, chopper, cleaver, hatchet, logger, log-man), cortar as machadadas (axe). (various references) | |
Romanian | topor (axe, cleaver, hatchet), tãia (amputate, axe, butcher, cancel, carve, carve out, castrate, chop, clap, cleave, clip, crop, cross, Curdle, cut, cut on the bias, Dent, dissect, engrave, excise, exscind, fell, flench, foul, grave, hew, incise, intercept, kill, measure off, notch, notch off, pare, plough, prune, quarter, resect, rip, Rive, separate, sever, shear, shorten, shut the works down, slaughter, slay, slice, snick, split, Square, stop, strike out, switch off), secure (axe, halberd, Halbert, hatchet), reduce (abate, abridge, axe, bear down, bring, cancel out, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, discount, draw in, drop, extenuate, fine down, knock down, knock off, lessen, lower, make good, narrow down, pare down, prune, recover, reduce, retrench, slacken, stint, stop, unbend, weaken), baltag (axe, halberd, hatchet). (various references) | |
Romany | br dva. (various references) | |
Russian | топор (axe, hatchet, zax). (various references) | |
Sepedi | selepe. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sekira (axe, hatchet), seći sekirom (axe). (various references) | |
Shona | demo. (various references) | |
Spanish | reducir a (amount to, axe, deplete, prune), hacha (axe, chopper, dab, hack, hatchet, sax, torch), despedirse de (axe, bid farewell to, emit, flash, lay off, shed, ship off, take adieu, take leave of), cortar (axe, bar, behead, block off, Bob, break, break in, chop, clip, comminute, crop, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut in, cut off, cut out, cut up, decapitate, detruncate, disbranch, excise, exscind, fell, hack, incise, intersect, joint, lop, lop away, lop off, lumber, mow, Nick, nip, open, pare, pick, pluck, prune, sever, shear, shear off, shear through, shut off, slice, slit, snick, strike off, tear off, trim away, trim off, turn off, turn out, Whittle). (various references) | |
Swazi | lí-zembe. (various references) | |
Swedish | yxa till (axe), yxa (axe, chop, cut, hack, hatchet), skära ner (axe, condense, cut, cut back, cut down, prune, whittle down), nedskärningar (axe), hugga ner med yxa (axe). (various references) | |
Thai | ฟันหรือตั""้วยขวาน (axe), ขวาน (axe). (various references) | |
Turkish | azaltmak (abate, alleviate, appease, attenuate, axe, Bate, cut back, cut down on, deaden, decrease, depress, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, fade in, impair, lessen, make a dent in, minimize, mitigate, put down, reduce, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slim down, step back, step down, taper off), azaltma (abatement, attenuation, axe, curtailment, cutback, decrease, depletion, derogation, detraction, diminution, discount, lessening, retrenchment, setdown), sepetlemek (bounce, bundle, bundle off, ditch, give the sack, sack, send packing, send smb. packing, stave off), kovmak (axe, banish, boot, bounce, can, cashier, cast out, chuck out, dislodge, dismiss, drive away, drive out, eject, elbow out, elbow smb. out, exclude, exile, expel, fend off, fire, get rid of, give smb. the bag, give smb. the chuck, give smb. the gate, give smb. the push, give the sack, kick out, make a clean sweep of, order away, order out, out, pack off, repulse, sack, send away, shoo, shoo away, show out, show smb. the door, show the door, turf out, turn away, turn out), kovma (axe, banishment, bounce, brushoff, exclusion, expelling, expulsion, firing, gate), kısmak (abridge, attenuate, axe, check, choke, choke back, choke off, curtail, cut back, cut down on, depress, diminish, draw in, economize, narrow, pare, pare down, pinch, put down, qualify, reduce, retrench, scrimp, skimp, soften, stint, throttle, throttle down, tighten, turn down), kısma (attenuation, axe, pinching, reducing, shutoff), işten kovma (axe, firing), enstrüman (axe, instrument, musical instrument), balta (axe, bill, broad-ax, chopper, cleaver, hatchet), çalgı (axe, instrument, music instrument, musical instrument). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | урізувати (axe, castrate, curtail, lop away, lop off, pare, scant, scrimp, shorten, truncate), урізування (axe, curtailment, shortening), скорочувати (abate, abbreviate, abridge, axe, blue pencil, boil down, cancel, castrate, curtail, cut, lop away, lop off, prune, retrench, shorten, shrink), скорочення (abatement, abbreviation, abridgement, abridgment, axe, cancellation, castration, contraction, curtailment, cutback, pruning, retraction, retrenchment), сокира ката (axe), сокира (axe, hatchet), колун (axe, chopper, cleaver), відтинання голови (axe, beheading, decapitation, decollation), зменшувати (abate, allay, alleviate, axe, belittle, cut back, decrease, detract, diminish, dwindle, extenuate, lessen, minify, palliate, relax, slacken, turn down, whittle away), зменшення (abatement, attenuation, axe, cutback, cutting, decline, decrease, decrement, degression, depression, diminution, narrowing, wane), працювати сокирою (axe). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | secure, securem, securi, securibus, securim, securis, securium, securum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 3, Verse 10 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Hdh de kai h axinh proV thn rizan twn dendrwn keitai pan oun dendron mh poioun karpon kalon ekkoptetai kai eiV pur balletai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Iam enim securis ad radicem arborum posita est omnis ergo arbor quae non facit fructum bonum exciditur et in ignem mittitur |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Eallunge is syo æx to þare treowewertrume äsett. Eornestlice ælc treow þegodne wæstme ne bringð byð forcorfen. & on fere aworpen. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And now the ax is put to the roote of the tree; therfore euery tree that makith not good fruyt, shal be kit doun, and shal be cast in to the fier. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Euenowe is ye axe put vnto ye rote of ye trees: soo that every tree which bringeth not forthe goode frute is hewe doune and cast into ye fyre. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And now also the ax is laid to the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire. |
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| Language | Matthew Chapter 3, Verse 10 |
| Cebuano | Ug bisan gani karon ang wasay gikataon na diha sa gamut sa mga kahoy; ug busa ang matag-usa ka kahoy nga wala mamungag maayong bunga, kini pagaputlon ug isalibay ngadto sa kalayo. |
| Croatian | Veæ je sjekira položena na korijen stablima. Svako dakle stablo koje ne donosi dobroga roda, sijeèe se i u oganj baca." |
| Danish | Men Øksen ligger allerede ved Roden af Træerne; så bliver da hvert Træ, som ikke bærer god Frugt, omhugget og kastet i Ilden. |
| Dutch | En ook is alrede de bijl aan den wortel der bomen gelegd; alle boom dan, die geen goede vrucht voortbrengt, wordt uitgehouwen en in het vuur geworpen. |
| Finnish | Jo on kirves pantu puitten juurelle; jokainen puu, joka ei tee hyvää hedelmää, siis hakataan pois ja heitetään tuleen. |
| French | Déj la cognée est mise la racine des arbres: tout arbre donc qui ne produit pas de bons fruits sera coupé et jeté au feu. |
| German | Es ist schon die Axt den Bäumen an die Wurzel gelegt. Darum, welcher Baum nicht gute Frucht bringt, wird abgehauen und ins Feuer geworfen. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kapak sudah siap untuk menebang pohon sampai ke akar-akarnya. Setiap pohon yang tidak menghasilkan buah yang baik akan ditebang dan dibuang ke dalam api. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Sekarang pun sudah sedia kapak di akar pohon kayu; maka tiap-tiap pohon kayu yang tiada berbuahkan buah yang baik, akan ditebang dan dibuang ke dalam api. |
| Italian | Gia la scure è posta alla radice degli alberi: ogni albero che non produce frutti buoni viene tagliato e gettato nel fuoco. |
| Korean | 이 미 도 끼 가 나 무 뿌 리 에 " 였 으 니 좋 은 열 매 맺 지 아 니 하 " 나 무 마 다 찍 혀 불 에 던 지 우 리 라 |
| Latvian | Jo cirvis jau pielikts pie koku saknçm. Tâtad katrs koks, kas nenes labus augïus, tiks nocirsts un ugunî iemests. |
| Manx Gaelic | As nish hene ta'n teigh er ny choyrt gys fraue ny biljyn: shen-y-fa ta dy chooilley villey nagh vel gymmyrkey magh mess mie, dy ve giarit sheese as tilgit ayns yn aile. |
| Maori | Na tenei ka pa te toki ki te pakiaka o nga rakau; a, ki te kahore tetahi rakau e hua i te hua pai, ka tuaina, ka maka ki te ahi. |
| Norwegian | Øksen ligger allerede ved roten av trærne; derfor blir hvert tre som ikke bærer god frukt, hugget ned og kastet på ilden. |
| Portuguese | E já está posto o machado á raiz das árvores; toda árvore, pois que não produz bom fruto, é cortada e lançada no fogo. |
| Rumanian | Iatq cq securea a wi fost knfiptq la rqdqcina pomilor: deci, orice pom, care nu face roadq bunq, va fi tqiat wi aruncat kn foc. |
| Russian | хЦЕ Й УЕЛЙТБ ТЙ ЛПТОЕ "ЕТЕЧ МЕЦЙФ: ЧУСЛПЕ "ЕТЕЧП, ОЕ ТЙОПУСЭЕЕ "П'ТПЗП МП"Б, УТХ'БАФ Й 'ТПУБАФ Ч ПЗПОШ. |
| Shuar | Numi ajaktinia aintsan Kampuwárin jacha atuttsamuiti. Tura numi pénker nereatsna nuka tsupikia jinium apeamu ártatui. |
| Spanish | El hacha ya está puesta a la raíz de los árboles. Por tanto, todo árbol que no da buen fruto es cortado y echado al fuego. |
| Swahili | Basi, shoka liko tayari kuikata mizizi ya miti; hivyo, kila mti usiozaa matunda mazuri, utakatwa na kutupwa motoni. |
| Swedish | Och redan är yxan satt till roten på träden; så bliver då vart träd som icke bär god frukt avhugget och kastat i elden. |
| Uma | Neo' rata-mi pehuku' Alata'ala! Pehuku' -na hewa pati to rodo ami' -mi hi tawu kaju. Butu ngkaju-na to uma lompe' wua' -na, bate ratoki pai' ratene' hi rala apu." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ax": axal, axe, axed, axel, axels, axeman, axemen, axenic, axenically, axes, axial, axialities, axiality, axially, axil, axile, axilla, axillae, axillar, axillaries, axillars, axillary, axillas, axils, axing, axiological, axiologically, axiologies, axiology, axiom, axiomatic, axiomatically, axiomatisation, axiomatisations, axiomatization, axiomatizations, axiomatize, axiomatized, axiomatizes, axiomatizing, axioms, axion, axions, axis, axised, axises, axisymmetric, axisymmetrical, axisymmetries, axisymmetry, axite. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ax": addax, aftertax, anthrax, anticlimax, antitax, banjax, beeswax, bombax, borax, broadax, carapax, cephalothorax, climax, coax, curtalax, dewax, disclimax, earwax, fax, flax, galax, gravlax, hapax, hoax, hydrothorax, hyrax, lax, max, mesothorax, metathorax, minimax, nontax, overlax, overtax, packwax, panchax, parallax, pax, paxwax, pickax, pneumothorax, poleax, posttax, pretax, prothorax, rax, relax, retax, rewax, sax, smilax. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ax": abaxial, abaxile, adaxial, addaxes, anaphylaxes, anaphylaxis, anticlimaxes, apraxia, apraxias, apraxic, ataraxia, ataraxias, ataraxic, ataraxics, ataraxies, ataraxy, ataxia, ataxias, ataxic, ataxics, ataxies, ataxy, banjaxed, banjaxes, banjaxing, beeswaxes, betaxed, biaxal, biaxial, biaxially, blaxploitation, blaxploitations, boraxes, braxies, braxy, broadaxe, broadaxes, canthaxanthin, canthaxanthins, carapaxes, cephalothoraxes, chemoprophylaxes, chemoprophylaxis, chemotaxes, chemotaxis, chemotaxonomic, chemotaxonomies, chemotaxonomist, chemotaxonomists, chemotaxonomy, chronaxie. (additional references) | |
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"Ax" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aex, ags, ajx, aks, Aksu, alx, Amx, anx, apx, aq, arx, asx, Atx, av, avx, axa, axaf, axd, axh, axi, Axkxt, axl, axn, axo, axs, axt, axu, axy, bx, dax, dx, eax, eux, ewx, exh, exj, exn, exq, exu, exx, exy, ezx, fx, gx, hx, Iix, iox, ixk, ixx, nx, px, sx, ucx, vax, xa, xam, yx. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ax" (pronounced a"ks) |
| 3 | a" k s | antitax, attacks, axe, backs, blacks, cracks, fax, flax, hacks, jacks, knacks, lacks, lax, macks, Macs, Max, packs, pacs, Pax, plaques, pretax, quacks, racks, rax, relax, sacks, sacs, sax, shacks, slacks, smacks, snacks, stacks, tacks, tax, tracks, wacks, wax, whacks. |
| 2 | -k s | academics, aches, acoustics, acrobatics, acrylics, aerobatics, aerobics, aerodynamics, aeronautics, aesthetics, affix, aftershocks, aftertax, airstrikes, alcoholics, analgesics, analytics, anesthetics, annex, anorexics, anthrax, antibiotics, antics, antiques, apex, apparatchiks, appendix, arcs, artichokes, artworks, asks, asthmatics, astronautics, astrophysics, athletics, atmospherics, attics, automatics, avionics, backaches, backpacks, bakes, balks, ballistics, ballparks, banks, barks, barracks, basics, basks, basques, batiks, beatniks, becks, benchmarks, bespeaks, bikes, bioethics, biologics, biophysics, biotechs, Birks, birthmarks, bishoprics, blanks, blinks, blocks, blocs, blokes, books, boombox, boondocks, borax, bottlenecks, boutiques, box, brakes, breadbox, breaks, bricks, brinks, Brooks, broomsticks, Bucks, bullocks, bunks, Burkes, buttocks, buybacks, cakes, calisthenics, Calix, calyx, candlesticks, casks, catholics, ceramics, cervix, chalks, characteristics, charismatics, checkbooks, checks, cheeks, chicks, chinks, chinooks, chokes, chopsticks, chunks, Cineplex, civics, classics, clerics, clerks, clicks, climax, clinics, cliques, clocks, clucks, clunks, coax, cokes, comebacks, comics, complex, conics, convex, cookbooks, cooks, corks, cornstalks, cortex, cosmetics, cossacks, counterattacks, Cox, cranks, creeks, Criminalistics, critics, critiques, crooks, crucifix, crux, cryogenics, cupcakes, cutbacks, cynics, damasks. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "a-x" | |
+1 letter: axe, fax, lax, max, pax, rax, sax, tax, wax, zax. | |
+2 letters: apex, axal, axed, axel, axes, axil, axis, axle, axon, calx, coax, coxa, eaux, exam, falx, faux, flax, hoax, ixia, maxi, moxa, taxa, taxi, waxy. | |
+3 letters: addax, admix, affix, annex, ataxy, auxin, axels, axial, axile, axils, axing, axiom, axion, axite, axled, axles, axman, axmen, axone, axons, beaux, borax, braxy, calix, calyx, carex, coxae, coxal, dewax, exact, exalt, exams, expat, extra, faxed, faxes, flaxy, galax, hapax, hexad, hyrax, ixias, ixora, latex, laxer, laxly, maxes, maxim, maxis, moxas, paxes, radix, raxed, raxes, relax, retax, rewax, saxes, taxed, taxer, taxes, taxis, taxon, taxus, texas, varix, waxed, waxen, waxer, waxes, xenia, xylan, zaxes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Bible Trace 18. Abbreviations 19. Acronyms 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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