CAXON is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. CAXON 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 14 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept CAXON?
| 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 | Not listed |
Word power: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CAXON is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CAXON
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
caxonsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CAXON scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CAXON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does CAXON mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A large periwig, especially a shabby, old-fashioned one worn by clerks and professional men in the eighteenth century.
A caxon was a formal wig of the kind that lawyers, clerks and other professional men wore well into the eighteenth century, often long after wigs had gone out of fashion elsewhere. Worn hard and rarely renewed, a caxon quickly grew grey, frizzled and dusty, so writers used the word to suggest someone old-fashioned or shabby-genteel. The word survives mainly in older fiction describing a character's outdated appearance.
How CAXON is used
Encountered chiefly in older English fiction describing dress, rarely used to name a wig today.
- The old clerk still wore his caxon long after every other man in the office had given up wigs.
- His caxon had turned grey and frizzled from years of hard wear.
- A dusty caxon perched on his head marked him as a relic of an earlier generation.
- She noticed the lawyer's caxon slipping sideways as he bowed.
- The portrait shows him in a plain caxon rather than the fashionable curls of the day.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CAXON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CAXON
1 longer words begin with CAXON.
Shorter words from the letters in CAXON
Common questions about CAXON
- Is CAXON valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and CAXON is not in it.
- How many points is CAXON worth?
- CAXON is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CAXON mean?
- A large periwig, especially a shabby, old-fashioned one worn by clerks and professional men in the eighteenth century.
- What letters can be added to CAXON?
- CAXON takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CAXON:
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