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-x

suffix
/ks/

Etymology

The letter x is prototypically pronounced [ks] in English; it therefore serves as a convenient shorthand for the digraphs (cs, ks, etc.) or trigraphs (cks etc.) that would otherwise represent that consonant cluster.

Definitions

  1. Used to represent a value that may vary

    Used to represent a value that may vary: see x.

    • I teach all of the 30x classes.

  2. Used to replace a /ks/ sound, especially in monosyllabic words ending in -cks or -ks.

    • blax (“blacks”), clox (“clocks”), fax (“facts”), folx (“folks”), hax (“hacks”), pix (“pics”), punx (“punks”), shox (“shocks”), snax (“snacks”), sox (“socks”), stix (“sticks”), tix (“tickets”), trax (“tracks”)

  3. An abbreviation marker.

    • Dx (“diagnosis”), elex (“election”), Hx (“history”), pax (“passenger”), RX (“receive”), TX (“transmit”)
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Used to replace a gendered suffix.

      • alumnx, Chicanx, Latinx

    2. Abbreviation of -cross.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -x. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA