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PYX

3 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big too short
(min 4)
Super Big too short
(min 4)

PYX is a valid 3-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic Boggle, though it's too short for Big and Super Big (which need four-letter words).

Word family

PYXES-es 2 PIX 1 PYXING-ing 3 PYXED-ed 2
noun
  1. alsofigurativelyA small, usually round container used to hold the host (“consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist”), especially when bringing communion to the sick or others unable to attend Mass.
  2. broadlyrareA (small) box; a casket, a coffret.
  3. UKA box used in a mint as a place to deposit sample coins intended to have the fineness of their metal and their weight tested before the coins are issued to the public.
  4. obsoleterareA compass used by sailors.
verb
  1. obsoletetransitiveTo place (the host) in a pyx.
  2. figurativelytransitiveTo enclose (something) in a box or other container; specifically, to place (a deceased person's body) in a coffin; to coffin, to encoffin.
  3. UKtransitiveTo deposit (sample coins) in a pyx; (by extension) to test (such coins) for the fineness of metal and weight before a mint issues them to the public.