oxi

/ˈɔçi/interjection, noun

oxi is an interjection meaning “no” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-X-I, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does oxi mean?

interjection

1
no.

noun

1
slangcocaine paste

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce oxi?

/ˈɔçi/
/ɒksi/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is oxi?

Oxi appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th most frequent word form in the list.

oxi0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does oxi come from?

Orthographic borrowing from Greek όχι (óchi), based on the typographic similarity.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).