Words with the Letters XV

More About Words With X and V

You may be surprised to learn that there are actually many English words with X and V in them. But, what words start with X and V? As it turns out, there aren’t any. Indeed, you’ll find only one valid word in Scrabble and Words With Friends with the XV combination exactly in that order: POXVIRUS. No playable words contain the letters VX together like that.

Start moving the letters around, however, and you’ll unlock a veritable bounty of options. Take VEX as a great base word. You can conjugate that into VEXING, VEXES and VEXED. Going further, a couple of words end in VEX too. Have you ever heard of CONVEX lenses? They’re used in eyeglasses for correcting farsightedness. SILVEX is a type of solid herbicide formerly used for weed control.   

When you’re ready to broaden your horizons again, explore these two letters separately by reviewing words with X and words with V. There’s no need to dwell in an EXCLAVE for too long, surviving on GRAVLAX alone, after all.