Boggle Word Finder
PYXES
✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
ENABLE1 ✓
Classic
2
pts
Big
2
pts
Super Big
2
pts
PYXES is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.
PYXES root PYX-es
Word family
noun
- 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.
- broadlyrareA (small) box; a casket, a coffret.
- 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.
- obsoleterareA compass used by sailors.
verb
- obsoletetransitiveTo place (the host) in a pyx.
- figurativelytransitiveTo enclose (something) in a box or other container; specifically, to place (a deceased person's body) in a coffin; to coffin, to encoffin.
- 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.