TEX is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. TEX 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 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept TEX?
| 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: 48 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TEX is to know. It scores 10 from 3 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TEX
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
textChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How TEX scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in TEX, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,246.
What does TEX mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A unit of linear density for textile yarn, equal to the mass in grams of one kilometre of thread.
Textile engineers created tex as a straightforward substitute for the older denier scale, since a yarn's tex value rises and falls in direct proportion to its weight rather than through an inverse calculation. Spinning mills print the tex count on yarn cones and reference it in trade specifications, letting buyers compare thickness across different fibre types without extra conversion tables.
How TEX is used
Used in textile manufacturing and trade documents rather than everyday speech.
- The mill printed the tex value on every cone leaving the spinning floor.
- Buyers checked the tex rating before agreeing to the shipment.
- A lower tex means the yarn is finer than the sample beside it.
- The specification called for 24 tex cotton for the warp threads.
- She recalculated the old denier figures into tex for the new catalogue.
- Two yarns of different fibre can share the same tex if their weight per length matches.
- The lab technician measured tex on a sample cut exactly one kilometre long.
- Industry contracts increasingly quote tex instead of the older imperial counts.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TEX and 8 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Where else you’ll see TEX
- TeX is the typesetting system Donald Knuth began in 1978, and it still sets most of the mathematics published today.
- The tex system is set out in the international standard ISO 1144, letting mills in different countries compare yarn weight on one shared scale.
- The tex is a unit of linear density for yarn and fibre: one tex is one gram per kilometre.
Words starting with TEX
Showing 24 of 58 words that begin with TEX.
Words ending in TEX
12 words end in TEX. Useful as a back hook: play TEX onto a word already on the board.
Words with TEX inside
Showing 24 of 92 words that contain TEX somewhere in the middle. Words that start with TEX are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TEX
Common questions about TEX
- Is TEX valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and TEX is not in it.
- How many points is TEX worth?
- TEX is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TEX mean?
- A unit of linear density for textile yarn, equal to the mass in grams of one kilometre of thread.
- What letters can be added to TEX?
- TEX takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of TEX:
Open TEX in the Word Finder