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rax

/ɹæks/verb, noun

rax is a verb meaning “To stretch; stretch out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-X and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does rax mean?

verb

  1. 1

    ScotlandUKTo stretch; stretch out.

  2. 2

    ScotlandUKTo reach out; reach or attain to.

  3. 3

    ScotlandUKTo extend the hand to; hand or pass something.

    Please rax me the pitcher.

  4. 4

    ScotlandUKTo perform the act of reaching or stretching; stretch oneself; reach for or try to obtain something

  5. 5

    ScotlandUKTo stretch after sleep.

noun

  1. 1

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

How do you pronounce rax?

  • /ɹæks/

Rax has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-rax.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of rax

  • raxes present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • raxing participle, present
  • raxed participle, past

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

How common is rax?

Rax appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st most frequent word form in the list.

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

Rax in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchtendre (to hand or pass something), s'étirer, étendre ses membres (to stretch after sleep)
Spanishalargar (to hand or pass something), estirarse, desperezarse (to stretch after sleep)
Germansich recken (to stretch after sleep)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does rax come from?

From Middle English raxen, rasken (“to stretch oneself”), from Old English raxan, racsan (“to stretch oneself after sleep”), probably alteration, with formative s, of Old English rǣċan, ræċċan, reċċan (“to stretch, extend”), from Proto-Germanic *rakjaną (“to stretch”), from Proto-Indo-European *reǵ- (“to make straight”). Related to Dutch rekken (“to stretch”), German recken (“to stretch”), Swedish räcka (“to suffice, reach, pass, last”).

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