zax
/zæks/noun
zax is a noun meaning “A tool, similar to a hatchet, used to prepare slate for roofing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled Z-A-X, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of zax is zaxes.
What does zax mean?
noun
- 1
A tool, similar to a hatchet, used to prepare slate for roofing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce zax?
- /zæks/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-zax.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of zax
- zaxes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is zax?
Zax appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th 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 zax come from?
Inherited from Middle English sax (“knife”), from Old English seax, from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą. Doublet of sax.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).