CAPEX is valid in Collins, not in North America — 16 points
It depends on the list you play by. CAPEX is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 16 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept CAPEX?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CAPEX is to know. It scores 16 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CAPEX
No single letter turns CAPEX into another word.
How CAPEX scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CAPEX, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does CAPEX mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
Money spent on buildings, plant and other lasting assets.
Capex is set against opex, the money that goes on running things from day to day, and the line between them is the most argued point in any budget: what counts as an asset is partly a decision rather than a fact. The clipping belongs to finance and has spread into ordinary management speech.
How CAPEX is used
Uncountable: the capex budget. The opposite term is opex.
- The capex was approved and the staffing was not.
- Moving a cost from capex to opex changes the year it appears in.
- A capex freeze stops every project with a building in it.
- They argued for a month about what belonged in capex.
- The word capex has escaped finance and reached everybody.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CAPEX and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CAPEX
1 longer words begin with CAPEX.
Shorter words from the letters in CAPEX
Common questions about CAPEX
- Is CAPEX valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CAPEX, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CAPEX worth?
- CAPEX is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CAPEX mean?
- Money spent on buildings, plant and other lasting assets.
- What letters can be added to CAPEX?
- No single letter can be added to CAPEX to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CAPEX:
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