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hex

/ˈhɛks/

hex verb: to cast a spell on (specifically an evil spell), to bewitch. Also the clipping of hexadecimal.

Verb (1)

hex (third-person singular simple present hexes, present participle hexing, simple past and past participle hexed)

  1. (transitive) To cast a spell on (specifically an evil spell), to bewitch.

Noun (1)

hex (plural hexes)

  1. An evil spell or curse.
    Synonyms:
    jinx, malediction
  2. A witch.
  3. (rare) A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft).

Noun (2)

hex (uncountable)

  1. (video game modding, chiefly Petz) A modified game file.
    • I don't even know how to put a hex in my game if a friend makes me something.2013 August 5, nine lives, “How to add a hexed pet to my game”, in RKC Petz Forum, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2026

Verb (2)

hex (third-person singular simple present hexes, present participle hexing, simple past and past participle hexed)

  1. (video game modding, chiefly Petz) To modify a game file using a hex editor.
    • Modding this was called “hexing” in the community. This was because you did it with a hex editor, reading through the numbers in the files to find the “ballz” and “linez” that made up the Petz and the variables that determined their size, position, and color.2016 May 15, melissa mcewen, “Petz: A lost community of mostly women coders/gamers”, in Medium, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2026, retrieved 27 Jul 2026

Noun (3)

hex (plural hexes)

  1. A hexagonal space on a game board.
  2. a hexagon-shaped item of rock climbing equipment intended to be wedged into a crack or other opening in the rock.

Also used as

hex is also the clipping of hexadecimal.

hex is also the clipping of uranium hexafluoride.

hex meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu

hex in Hindi

हेक्स

hex in Tamil

ஹெக்ஸ்

hex in Bengali

হেক্স

hex in Telugu

హెక్స్, హెక్స్కు, హెక్స్కి
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hex in Malayalam
ഹെക്സിലേക്ക്
hex in Kannada
ಹೆಕ್ಸ್ಗೆ, ಹೆಕ್ಸ್
hex in Gujarati
હેક્સ
hex in Odia
ହେକ୍ସକୁ, ହେକ୍ସ, ହେକ୍ସ୍
hex in Arabic
نَحَسَ naḥasa, ساحِرة sāḥira, مُشَعْوِذة mušaʕwiḏa
hex in Persian
جادو کردن jâdu kardan, جادو jâdu

Examples of hex in a sentence

  • The witch put a hex on me.
  • Hex laughed and Rory started, realizing he'd been dropping his guard with the traitorous exgod.
  • When characters end a turn in the hex, these chits are revealed.

All 17 example sentences with hex

Synonyms of hex

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Forms of hex

Verb
third-person singular presenthexes
present participlehexing
past participlehexed
pasthexed
Noun
pluralhexes

Past tense of hex: hexed

Origin of hex

First attested about 1830, from Pennsylvania German hexe (“to practice witchcraft”), from German hexen (compare Hexe (“witch”)). The noun appeared later, in the 1850s. Cognate to Norwegian Bokmål heks (“witch”) and Dutch heks (“witch”), Dutch beheksen (“to bewitch”), Old English hægtesse (“witch, hag”). Doublet of hag.

Short for hexadecimal.

Short for hexagon.

Words formed from hex

Phrases with hex

Words that rhyme with hex

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Questions about hex

What does hex mean?
Hex means to cast a spell on (specifically an evil spell), to bewitch.
What is hex in Hindi?
Hex in Hindi is हेक्स. See Hex meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is hex?
Hex can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce hex?
Hex is pronounced /ˈhɛks/.
What is the past tense of hex?
The past tense of hex is hexed.

Words near hex in the dictionary

  1. hews
  2. hews down
  3. hews out
  4. Hewson
  5. hewwo
  6. hex
  7. hex bar
  8. hex bars
  9. hex crawl
  10. hex crawls
  11. hex edit

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hex (page history and authors); hex (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hex (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hex (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hex (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hex (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hex (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hex (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hex (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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