Words That Start With

X

English words beginning with “X” — sorted by frequency

✦172 words found

🟩16 Wordle words

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🟩 5-Letter Words Starting With X

16 Wordle words

These are valid 5-letter words — exactly the format Wordle uses every day.

XENIC XFORM XENON XEROX XERIC XYRIS XTIAN XYLEM XIONG XYSMA XYLON XERTZ XTEND XANNY XBONE XEBEC

🎯 4-Letter Words Starting With X

14 words

Useful for Scrabble, crossword fill-ins, and short word puzzles.

XORN XXVI XMIT XENO XLNT XMAS XXXX XOXO XIAO XENA XXXS XAES XAND XIMB

All Words Starting With X

172 words — most common first

Sorted by how frequently each word appears in written English.

Word	Letters	Syllables	Type	Definition
xenophobia	10	5	noun	A fear, antipathy, or hatred of strangers or foreigners.
xenocide	8	3	noun	(science fiction) The genocide of an entire alien species.
xenic	5	2		Strange or foreign in some way.
xor	3	2	noun	The logic function exclusive OR (as opposed to inclusive OR), whose output is true only when exactly one of its inputs is true.
xanadu	6	3	noun	(figurative) A place full of beauty, happiness and wonder.
xoanon	6	3	noun	(historical) A wooden statue used as a cult image in Ancient Greece.
xantippe	8	2	noun	Alternative spelling of Xanthippe. [(literary, derogatory, dated) An ill-tempered woman.]
xxx	3	1	noun	Extreme or hardcore pornography; or, less strictly, any pornographic content.
xorn	4	1	noun	(fantasy) A fictional monster that devours earthen and silicate materials and can move freely through earth.
xanthic	7	2		Of a yellowish colour.
xanthous	8	2		Yellow-brown; yolk-colored.
xerxes	6	2	noun	(historical) Xerxes I, a Persian king of the Achaemenid dynasty who reigned 485-465 BC.
xystus	6	2	noun	(historical, architecture, in Ancient Greece) A long and open portico within the gymnasium.
xenomorph	9	3	noun	A strange form, an alien creature.
xenonymy	8	4	noun	The juxtaposition of semantically incompatible words.
xyster	6	2	noun	A surgical instrument used to scrape bones.
xenium	6	3	noun	A gift or offering.
xenophile	9	3	noun	A person who has a love of foreign people and culture.
xenophilia	10	4	noun	An attraction to or love of foreign people, manners or culture.
xxvi	4	1	noun	the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-five and one
xystarch	8	2	noun	The officer in charge of a xystus in Ancient Greece.
xanthinine	10	4	noun	(obsolete, organic chemistry) A poorly-characterised material, related to urea and uric acid, that forms yellow salts, and exhibits a blue fluorescence.
xanthochromic	13	4		Having a yellow colour
xanthogenic	11	4		Producing a yellow colour
xtreme	6	2		(informal, nonstandard) Alternative form of extreme. [Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost.]
xenology	8	4	noun	(science fiction) The study of alien life.
xform	5	1	verb	Abbreviation of transform. [(transitive) To change greatly the appearance or form of.]
xmit	4	1	verb	Abbreviation of transmit. [(transitive) To send or convey from one person, place or thing to another.]
xenocentrism	12	5	noun	A preference for the products, styles, or ideas of a different culture or nationality.
xerification	12	5	noun	The drying of a region.
xylophone	9	3	noun	(music) Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.
xenon	5	2	noun	The chemical element (symbol Xe) with an atomic number of 54. It is a colorless, odorless, unreactive noble gas, used notably in camera flash technology.
xerox	5	2	noun	(Philippines, India, dated in Canada, US, colloquial, informal) A photocopy.
xeric	5	2		(of an environment or habitat) Very dry, lacking humidity and water.
xenobiotic	10	5	noun	(biology) Relating to a substance foreign to the body or ecological system.
xenophobic	10	4	noun	Exhibiting or characterised by xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or extraterrestial life.
xiphias	7	3	noun	Synonym of swordfish.
xeno	4	2		is a Japanese science fantasy video game franchise created by Tetsuya Takahashi.
xenolith	8	3	noun	(geology) Any piece of rock having a different origin to that of the igneous rock in which it is found.
xanthopsia	10	4	noun	A visual defect, a form of chromatopsia in which everything appears yellow.
xenophobe	9	3	noun	One who hates or fears strangers or foreigners.
xerophile	9	3	noun	Any xerophilic organism.
xyris	5	2	noun	(botany) Any member of the plant genus Xyris.
xanthochroic	12	4		pertaining to people or races with light hair and pale complexions
xenial	6	3		Hospitable, especially to visiting strangers or foreigners.
xtian	5	1	noun	Abbreviation of Christian. [(not comparable) Of, like or relating to Christianity or Christians.]
xenomorphic	11	4		In an unusual form; having a strange form.
xerophagia	10	5	noun	The eating of dry food.
xlnt	4	1		(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of excellent. [Having excelled, having surpassed.]
xanthodontous	13	4		(rare) Having yellow teeth.
xenoblast	9	3	noun	A crystal forming in a metamorphic rock that has not developed its characteristic crystalline faces and which gets its shape from bordering crystals.
xylophonic	10	4		Of or pertaining to a xylophone.
xenobiologist	13	6	noun	A biologist who works in xenobiology.
xenolite	8	3	noun	(geology) Xenolith.
xenophonic	10	4		Synonym of Xenophonian.
xylophyte	9	3	noun	(botany) Any woody plant.
xylem	5	2	noun	(botany) A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the distribution of water and minerals taken up by the roots; also the primary component of wood.
xmas	4	3	noun	(informal) Abbreviation of Christmas. [(originally Christianity) A festival or holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ and incorporating various Christian, pre-Christian, pagan, and secular customs, which in Western Christianity is celebrated on December 25 (Christmas Day) in most places.]
xylene	6	2	noun	(chemistry) Any of a group of three isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons, found in coal and wood tar.
xenograft	9	3	noun	A tissue graft taken from a species different from that of the recipient.
xerophyte	9	3	noun	A desert plant
xenotransplantation	19	6	noun	The transplantation of biological or organic matter from a given species into a different one, especially when this matter has been altered (such as by genetic engineering)
xtc	3	1	noun	(informal) Abbreviation of ecstasy (“the drug”). [Intense pleasure.]
xenogenesis	11	5	noun	(biology) The production of an offspring that is unlike either of its parents.
xylophagous	11	4		Feeding on wood. (of insects etc.)
xylose	6	2	noun	(biochemistry) One of the pentoses, C₅H₁₀O₅, a white crystalline sugar, derived from wood.
xenogamy	8	4	noun	(botany) The transfer of pollen from the anthers of one plant to the stigma of another; cross-pollination.
xanthosis	9	3	noun	(pathology) A yellowish discolouration of tissues undergoing degeneration.
xenotime	8	3	noun	(mineralogy) A yellow-brown mineral, yttrium phosphate (YPO₄)
xenotransplant	14	4	noun	An instance of xenotransplantation.
xerophytic	10	4	noun	(botany) Of, pertaining to, or being a xerophyte
xylograph	9	3	noun	An engraving in wood or woodcut, especially one used in printing predating the Western tradition (14th c.).
xylocopa	8	4	noun	carpenter bees
xizang	6	2	noun	Tibet Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China.
xenogeneic	10	5		(genetics) Derived from a different species and therefore genetically and immunologically incompatible
xvi	3	1	noun	the cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one
xinjiang	8	3	noun	An Uyghur autonomous region of China, located in the sparsely populated northwest. Official name: Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Capital: Ürümqi.
xanthene	8	2	noun	(organic chemistry) Any of a group of tricyclic heterocycles (dibenzopyrans) that are the basis for a range of dyes such as fluorescein and eosin.
xenodiagnosis	13	6	noun	(medicine) The diagnosis of an infectious disease (especially of trypanosomiasis) by exposure to a vector of that disease, incubating the vector and examining it for the presence of the disease.
xenodochium	11	5	noun	A room (or separate guesthouse) in a monastery for the temporary accommodation of guests or pilgrims.
xeriscape	9	3	noun	A kind of landscape design for arid regions, minimising the need for irrigation.
xeroma	6	4	noun	(medicine) Dryness of the eye.
xia	3	1	noun	(historical) An ancient dynasty in China.
xenomania	9	5	noun	A strong or excessive preference for foreigners or for foreign customs, manners, or institutions.
xanthochroid	12	3	noun	(anthropology, dated) Pertaining to the Xanthochroi; having fair hair and a pale complexion.
xenogenetic	11	5		Being of foreign origin; having originated elsewhere.
xerosere	8	3	noun	(ecology) The succession of ecological communities which originated in an extremely dry habitat such as a desert or sand dunes.
xxxx	4	1	noun	X-rated, pornographic; XXX.
xanthorhiza	11	4		Xanthorhiza simplicissima (yellowroot) is the only member of the genus Xanthorhiza, and one of very few genera in the family Ranunculaceae with a woody stem (the other notable example being Clematis).
xanthochroi	11	3	noun	(dated, anthropology) A division of the human population having fair skin and wavy blond hair.
xanthochroism	13	5	noun	Alternative form of xanthochromism. [(biology) Abnormal yellow colouration.]
xanthose	8	2	noun	A complex formed between xanthine and ribose.
xes	3	2	noun	(social media) An online social media network, formerly known as Twitter.
xylanthrax	10	3	noun	(archaic) Wood coal or charcoal, distinguished from mineral coal; lignite.
xylomancy	9	4	noun	Divination by means of examining or burning pieces of wood.
xoxo	4	2	noun	Abbreviation of hugs and kisses, usually placed at the end of a letter.
xiao	4	1	noun	A type of Chinese flute.
xat	3	1	noun	A carved pole erected as a memorial to the dead by some Native Americans of Western North America.
xenogenous	10	4		Of foreign origin; xenogenic.
xeromorphic	11	4		(biology) Of, relating to, or characteristic of the xerophytes, especially having the ability to store water in leaves and stems.
xerotic	7	4		(medicine) dry
xeroxed	7	2	verb	(Philippines, India, dated in Canada, US, colloquial, informal) To make a paper copy or copies by means of a photocopier.
xylotile	8	3	noun	(mineralogy) An altered form of asbestos.
xylophobia	10	5	noun	A fear of wooden objects.
xaa	3	1	noun	—
xau	3	1	noun	—
xiong	5	1	noun	A surname.
xysma	5	2	noun	(medicine) Material resembling bits of membrane in stools of diarrhea.
xla	3	1	noun	—
xena	4	2	noun	A female given name from Ancient Greek of modern usage.
xenocratic	10	4		Of or relating to Xenocrates.
xianity	7	3	noun	Abbreviation of Christianity. [An Abrahamic religion originating from the community of the followers of Jesus Christ.]
xenogeny	8	4	noun	Xenogenesis.
xylon	5	2	noun	(historical) A unit of length in Ancient Greece.
xystos	6	2	noun	Alternative form of xystus. [(historical, architecture, in Ancient Greece) A long and open portico within the gymnasium.]
xwa	3	1	noun	—
xibalba	7	3	noun	The underworld in Mayan mythology.
xiongnu	7	3	noun	(historical) An ancient nomadic-based people that formed a state or confederation north of the agriculture-based empire of the Han dynasty.
xya	3	2		XyaLatreille PA Hist.
xenobiosis	10	5	noun	(biology) A form of symbiosis where one species of ant lives with another and the two species raise their young separately.