VAX is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. VAX 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 13 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept VAX?
| 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: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VAX is to know. It scores 13 from 3 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VAX
No single letter turns VAX into another word.
How VAX scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in VAX, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 8,983.
What stands out about VAX
- VAX 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 VAX mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
A vaccination, or a vaccine.
The noun vax is older than most people assume — it is on record in the 1970s — but it left medical shorthand only in 2020, when the subject needed a short word many times a day. The verb followed within months, which is fast even for a word that already existed.
How VAX is used
Countable: a vax, two vaxes. Informal; also a verb.
- She had the second vax in the spring.
- A vax booked at nine took four minutes.
- The word vax was medical shorthand for fifty years first.
- Two vaxes and a form filled in on a phone.
- The clinic ran out of vax by the afternoon.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VAX and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with VAX
1 longer words begin with VAX.
Words ending in VAX
1 words end in VAX. Useful as a back hook: play VAX onto a word already on the board.
Words with VAX inside
4 words contain VAX in the middle. Words that start with VAX are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in VAX
Common questions about VAX
- Is VAX valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and VAX is not in it.
- How many points is VAX worth?
- VAX is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VAX mean?
- A vaccination, or a vaccine.
- What letters can be added to VAX?
- No single letter can be added to VAX to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of VAX:
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