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XAS

/ɛks eɪ̯z/noun

XAS is a noun meaning “Acronym of X-ray absorption spectroscopy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled X-A-S and has one syllable (XAs), and it appears about once in every 39 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does XAS mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Acronym of X-ray absorption spectroscopy.

noun

as XAs
  1. 1

    plural of XA (a form of XA)

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

How do you pronounce XAS?

  • US /ɛks eɪ̯z/
  • US /eks eɪ̯z/
  • Australia /eks æɪ̯z/

XAS has one syllable, split XAs in writing.

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

How common is XAS?

XAS appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd 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).