HEX is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. HEX is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HEX?
| 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: 48 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HEX is to know. It scores 13 from 3 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HEX
No single letter turns HEX into another word.
How HEX scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in HEX, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 6,738.
What stands out about HEX
- HEX scores 13 points, more than twice the average for a 3-letter word (6.3).
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does HEX mean in Scrabble?
noun
A spell or curse, especially one meant to bring bad luck.
Hex came into American English from German settlers in Pennsylvania and kept a domestic scale: not the grand magic of literature but the kind blamed for a failed crop or a lame horse. The unrelated hex of programming is short for hexadecimal, and the two are never confused because their sentences never meet.
How HEX is used
Countable: a hex, two hexes. Also a verb — to hex somebody.
- She put a hex on the team and the season proved her right.
- A hex is blamed for small disasters rather than large ones.
- He claims the car is hexed and will not sell it.
- The other hex is a way of writing numbers.
- Nobody admits to believing in a hex and everybody avoids one.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HEX and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HEX
Showing 24 of 145 words that begin with HEX.
Words ending in HEX
1 words end in HEX. Useful as a back hook: play HEX onto a word already on the board.
Words with HEX inside
24 words contain HEX in the middle. Words that start with HEX are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HEX
Common questions about HEX
- Is HEX valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HEX, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HEX worth?
- HEX is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HEX mean?
- A spell or curse, especially one meant to bring bad luck.
- What letters can be added to HEX?
- No single letter can be added to HEX to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of HEX:
Open HEX in the Word Finder