WX
noun
WX is a noun meaning “Abbreviation of weather” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-X, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does WX mean?
noun
- 1
Abbreviation of weather.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of WX
- Wx
- wx
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is WX?
WX appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,122nd 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).
Where does WX come from?
Originating as a Morse code shorthand code. Possibly by analogy with single-word medical terms such as Hx (“history”) and Dx (“diagnosis”), which were patterned after the earlier Rx (“prescription”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).