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PYXING

6 letters

◐ IN SOME DICTIONARIES
TWL06 ✗ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✗
Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

PYXING is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in SOWPODS but not TWL06 and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.

PYXING root PYX-ing

Word family

PYX 1 PYXES-es 2 PIX 1 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.