pyx

Other forms of pyx

plural

pyxes·

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 pyx

What does pyx mean?

pyx means "a chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pyx?

pyx has 1 syllable: pyx.

What is another word for pyx?

Close synonyms include pix, pyx chest, pix chest, pix. 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 pyx a common word?

pyx is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.