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Is sext a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word sext is a Scrabble US word. The word sext is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is sext a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word sext is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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4-letter words (1 found)

SEXT,

3-letter words (5 found)

EST,SET,SEX,TES,TEX,

2-letter words (5 found)

ES,ET,EX,ST,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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

All 4 letters words made out of sext

sext esxt sxet xset exst xest setx estx stex tsex etsx tesx sxte xste stxe tsxe xtse txse exts xets etxs texs xtes txes

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word sext. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in sext.

Definitions and meaning of sext

sext

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɛkst/
  • Homophone: sexed
  • Rhymes: -ɛkst

Etymology 1

From Latin sexta (“sixth; sixth hour”). Doublet of siesta.

Noun

sext (plural sexts)

  1. (historical) Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight.
    Synonyms: midday, noontide; see also Thesaurus:midday
  2. (Roman Catholicism) The service appointed for this hour.
  3. (music) A sixth: an interval of six diatonic degrees.
  4. (music, obsolete) An organ stop of two ranks of pipes an interval of a sixth apart.
Hypernyms
  • (both): hour, canonical hour
  • (service): liturgy of the hours, little hour
Translations

Etymology 2

Blend of sex +‎ text. As a verb, a back-formation from earlier sexting, formed from the noun.

Noun

sext (plural sexts)

  1. An electronic message, especially one sent by cell phone, involving sexual language or images.

Verb

sext (third-person singular simple present sexts, present participle sexting, simple past and past participle sexted)

  1. (intransitive and transitive) To send a sext.
    • 2007 October 19, Cameron Millar, "Text Mad Brits Top League for Saucy Messages" in the Daily Star, p. 21 (caption):
      Rebecca Loos claimed she was 'sexted' by Beckham
Synonyms
  • sex-text
Derived terms
  • sexter
  • sextual
  • sextually
Translations

References

  • "sext, n.¹", "n.²", "v.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sextus (“sixth”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsɛkst]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈsekst]

Adjective

sext (feminine sexta, masculine plural sexts or sextos, feminine plural sextes)

  1. (ordinal number) sixth
    Synonym: sisè

Noun

sext m (plural sexts or sextos)

  1. (fractional number) sixth

Further reading

  • “sext” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Middle English

Adjective

sext

  1. Alternative form of sixte

Noun

sext

  1. Alternative form of sixte

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German sechste, Dutch zesde, English sixth.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɛk͡st/

Adjective

sext

  1. sixth

Numeral

sext

  1. sixth

Source: wiktionary.org