COX is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. COX is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COX?
| 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: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COX is to know. It scores 12 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 3.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COX
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How COX scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in COX, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,106.
What does COX mean in Scrabble?
verb
To steer a racing rowing boat and call the rhythm to the crew from the stern.
The cox is the only person in the boat facing forward, so the job is as much about picking a safe line as about holding eight people together. Crews shout the name of the job rather than the name of the person, which is why a cox gets shouted at, argued with and thanked in roughly that order. The word works as a verb too: you cox a crew the way a driver drives a car.
How COX is used
Both noun and verb: he is the cox, and he coxed the first eight last season. The longer form coxswain names the same job.
- The cox called for ten hard strokes and the boat lifted.
- She coxed the first eight for three seasons before she ever rowed in it.
- A good cox saves more on the bends than the crew can make on the straight.
- He was small and loud, which is most of what a cox needs to be.
- The coxes met at dawn to walk the bank and read the stream.
- Without a cox the crew steered into the reeds within a minute.
- Coxing looks easy from the towpath and never is.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COX and 7 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Where else you’ll see COX
- COX is the short name of the enzyme that aspirin and ibuprofen work by blocking, written with these same three letters.
- A Cox is also an English eating apple, short for Cox's Orange Pippin and named after the man who first raised it.
Words starting with COX
Showing 24 of 36 words that begin with COX.
Words ending in COX
1 words end in COX. Useful as a back hook: play COX onto a word already on the board.
Words with COX inside
7 words contain COX in the middle. Words that start with COX are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in COX
Common questions about COX
- Is COX valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COX, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COX worth?
- COX is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COX mean?
- To steer a racing rowing boat and call the rhythm to the crew from the stern.
- What letters can be added to COX?
- COX takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of COX:
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