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Twenty words hold E second and X third, and that X makes them worth more than their length suggests.
X carries one of the highest tile values in Scrabble and Words With Friends, and it is awkward to place. A five letter word that puts it in the third box is a useful thing to have memorised.
TEXTS, NEXUS, VEXED, HEXES and LEXIS are the entries in general use. SEXTO and HEXAD belong to printing and mathematics, and the rest are plural or past forms.
S closes eleven of the twenty and E fills the fourth box in eleven. Between them that is most of the back half settled before you start.
That depends on the board rather than the word, since every entry here carries the same X. Placing the X on a premium square matters far more than which word you pick.
The opening letter is the whole difference. To hex is to cast a spell and to vex is to annoy, and both take the same ED ending.
The full vocabulary of a language, used as a term in linguistics. It is the most academic word in this group.
A group formed on the same Greek root that gives us hexagon. It belongs to mathematics and music theory.
Zero of the twenty do. No letter repeats anywhere in the group, which is unusual for a pattern of this size.