AXE is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. AXE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AXE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 60 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AXE is to know. It scores 10 from 3 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AXE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AXE scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in AXE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,497.
What does AXE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A tool with a heavy blade on a handle, for chopping.
The axe is among the oldest tools there is and the shape has barely moved in four thousand years: what changed is the metal and the way the head is fixed on. The figurative sense of cutting jobs or budgets arrived in the nineteenth century and is now commoner in print than the object.
How AXE is used
Countable: an axe, two axes. American spelling ax. Also a verb.
- The axe was sharper than anything else in the shed.
- Three departments were axed in one morning.
- An axe with a loose head is worse than no axe.
- He split the whole winter's wood with one axe.
- The axe fell on the smallest office first.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AXE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with AXE
13 longer words begin with AXE.
Words ending in AXE
11 words end in AXE. Useful as a back hook: play AXE onto a word already on the board.
Words with AXE inside
Showing 24 of 184 words that contain AXE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with AXE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in AXE
Common questions about AXE
- Is AXE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AXE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AXE worth?
- AXE is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AXE mean?
- A tool with a heavy blade on a handle, for chopping.
- What letters can be added to AXE?
- AXE takes 4 hooks: 1 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of AXE:
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