Here are the 50 most played words in Scrabble that contain the letter "X". The words are presented in playrank order, meaning XI is the most often played word of the bunch, EX is the second most often played word, and so on down the list. This information only applies to games played under the OWL2 official tournament word list.
There are 4,745 legal x-words in the OWL2 list, but the 50 words presented below account for over 71% of all x-word plays! Putting that another way, if an x-word is used in a game then there is a 71% chance that it is in the list below (although a great deal of this bias is due to one word: XI).
All of these words are commonly played and should be memorized.
1. xi
2. ex
3. ax
4. ox
5. xu
6. axe
7. oxo
8. rex
9. dex
10. xis
11. hex
12. vex
13. zax
14. gox
15. rax
16. tax
17. lex
18. fax
19. wax
20. vox
21. lax
22. lox
23. box
24. nix
25. fox
26. kex
27. pax
28. max
29. sex
30. oxy
31. cox
32. sax
33. vext
34. axed
35. sox
36. ilex
37. pix
38. taxi
39. pox
40. axel
41. six
42. axis
43. exit
44. fix
45. nixe
46. mix
47. ixia
48. tux
49. taxa
50. maxi
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