fax

Other forms of fax

plural

faxes·

past tense

faxed·

present participle

faxing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fax

What does fax mean?

fax means "duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fax?

fax has 1 syllable: fax. In IPA it is /ˈfæks/.

What is another word for fax?

Close synonyms include facsimile, facsimile machine, telefax, facsimile. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fax a common word?

fax is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with fax?

1 word rhymes with fax. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.