5-Letter Words With X as the Third Letter
Our word finder knows 94 five-letter words with X as the third letter. Common picks such as TEXAS, FIXED, TAXES lead the list, which makes it faster to spot the word your puzzle is hiding.
Words are ordered by usage frequency in a trillion-word English corpus, which is the closest thing to "most likely answer first" that a word list can offer.
Most common
- texas12
- fixed16
- taxes12
- boxes14
- mixed15
- texts12
- sixth15
- toxic14
- pixel14
- fixes15
- boxed15
- mixer14
- sixty15
- maxim16
- boxer14
- mixes14
- faxes15
- nexus12
- taxis12
- sexes12
All 94 words (the small number on each word is its Scrabble point value)
- taxed 13
- toxin 12
- taxon 12
- lexis 12
- pixie 14
- faxed 16
- vixen 15
- foxes 15
- waxed 16
- waxes 15
- fixer 15
- moxie 14
- maxis 14
- dixit 13
- vexed 16
- buxom 16
- maxed 15
- sixes 12
- taxol 12
- sexed 13
- auxin 12
- hexes 15
- tuxes 12
- fixit 15
- taxus 12
- saxes 12
- nixed 13
- nixes 12
- mixup 16
- nixie 12
- foxed 16
- doxie 13
- hexyl 18
- pyxis 17
- coxes 14
- coxed 15
- waxen 15
- sexto 12
- hexed 16
- maxes 14
- waxer 15
- laxer 12
- vexes 15
- coxae 14
- coxal 14
- dexes 13
- dexie 13
- goxes 13
- hexad 16
- hexer 15
- kexes 16
- laxes 12
- laxly 15
- lexes 12
- loxed 13
- loxes 12
- luxes 12
- moxas 14
- paxes 14
- pixes 14
- poxed 15
- poxes 14
- pyxes 17
- pyxie 17
- raxed 13
- raxes 12
- rexes 12
- sexts 12
- sixmo 14
- sixte 12
- taxer 12
- vexer 15
- vexil 15
- zaxes 21
Points use Scrabble US letter values
Frequently asked questions
How many five-letter words are there with X as the third letter?
There are 94 five-letter words with X as the third letter in the tournament word lists. The most common are TEXAS, FIXED, TAXES.
What are common five-letter words with X as the third letter?
TEXAS, FIXED, TAXES, BOXES, MIXED are the most frequently used. The full list of 94 words on this page is sorted by everyday frequency, so the common ones come first.
Are these valid Wordle words?
Nearly all of them. Wordle draws its answers from a curated list of common five-letter words, but it accepts almost any dictionary word as a guess, including the words on this page.