3 letter words with X

Our dictionary holds 47 3 letter words with x, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is ZAX, worth 19 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with L than any other letter — 4 of them, about 9% of the list.

25 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (53%), including sex, box, tax, fax, six; the remaining 22 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.