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Yes. The word apex is a Scrabble US word. The word apex is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (1 found)

APEX,

3-letter words (4 found)

APE,AXE,PAX,PEA,

2-letter words (6 found)

AE,AX,EA,EX,PA,PE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 12 words from apex according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of apex

apex paex aepx eapx peax epax apxe paxe axpe xape pxae xpae aexp eaxp axep xaep exap xeap pexa epxa pxea xpea expa xepa

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Definitions and meaning of apex

apex

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin apex (“point, tip, summit”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈeɪ.pɛks/
  • Rhymes: -eɪpɛks

Noun

apex (plural apices or apexes)

  1. The highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point.
    Synonyms: peak, top, summit, vertex
    1. (geometry) The highest point in a plane or solid figure, relative to a base line or plane.
    2. (chiefly anatomy) The pointed fine end of something.
      Synonyms: end, tip
      1. The lowest part of the human heart.
      3. The deepest part of a tooth's root.
    3. (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ opposed to the end where it is attached to its support.
      Synonym: tip
    4. (botany) The growing point of a shoot.
    5. (astronomy) The point on the celestial sphere toward which the Sun appears to move relative to nearby stars.
      Hyponym: solar apex
    6. (physics) The lowest point on a pendant drop of a liquid.
    7. (mining, US) The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface.
    8. (typography):
      1. A diacritic in Classical Latin that resembles and gave rise to the acute.
      2. A diacritic in Middle Vietnamese that indicates /ŋ͡m/.
      3. A sharp upward point formed by two strokes that meet at an acute angle, as in "W", uppercase "A", and closed-top "4", or by a tapered stroke, as in lowercase "t".
        Coordinate term: vertex
  2. (figuratively) The moment of greatest success, expansion, etc.
    Synonyms: acme, culmination, height, peak, pinnacle
  3. (attributive, ecology) The top of the food chain.
  4. A conical priest cap.

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Derived terms

Related terms

  • apical

Translations

References

  • “apex”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • “apex”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  • “apex”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “apex”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *apeks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“to join, fit”). Cognate with Latin apō (“to fasten, join, tie to”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈa.peks/, [ˈäpɛks̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.peks/, [ˈäːpeks]

Noun

apex m (genitive apicis); third declension

  1. The extreme end of a thing; the point, summit, top.
    Synonyms: cacūmen, summa, fastīgium, culmen, vertex, summitās
    Antonym: fundus
  2. (literally) The small rod (generally of olive wood) at the top of the flamen's cap, wound around with a woolen cord or "thread".
  3. (transferred sense):
    1. The conical leathern cap of an ancient Roman priest (the Flamen), ornamented with this rod.
    2. Any hat or helmet; a crown.
    3. (literally) A projecting point or summit.
      1. (figurative) The highest ornament or honor; the crown of a thing.
    4. (grammar) The macron (long mark over a vowel).
      1. The forms or outlines of the letters.
    5. A letter or any other writing.
    6. (Ecclesiastical Latin, figurative) (of the point or apex of a Hebrew letter) The least particle, tittle.

Inflection

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

  • “apex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “apex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • apex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • apex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “apex”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “apex”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin apex.

Noun

apex n (plural apexuri)

  1. apex

Declension


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