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5-Letter Words Ending in AX

There are 10 five-letter words ending in AX on Word.ws, from addax to vivax. The most common are relax, borax, vivax, audax and panax.

Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.

All 10 five-letter words ending in AX

  • addax14n. A large African antelope (Addax nasomaculatus) with long, corkscrewing...
  • audax13n. A non-competitive long-distance (often over 200 km) cycling event.
  • borax14n. A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, found in nature as a mineral...
  • donax13n. A canelike grass of southern Europe (Arundo donax), used for fishing...
  • hyrax18n. Any of several small, paenungulate herbivorous mammals of the family...
  • limax14n. A slug or slug-like creature.
  • panax14n. Any plant of the genus Panax.
  • relax12v. To make something loose.
  • tomax14n. Synonym of tomahawk.
  • vivax18n. Malaria caused by the parasite Plasmodium vivax.
16 rare five-letter words ending in AX

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words ending in AX are there?
Word.ws lists 10 five-letter words ending in AX, plus 16 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words ending in AX?
relax, borax, vivax, audax, panax, hyrax, addax and donax.
Which of the five-letter words ending in AX has the highest letter score?
vivax scores 18 points with the standard letter tile values.

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Word lists and meanings adapted from the Wiktionary entry of each word. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out names, abbreviations, misspellings and offensive words, and ordered the most common words by how often they appear in English (wordfreq). Meanings from Wiktionary; this is not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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