hex
/ˈhɛks/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.31 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A witch.
verb
To modify a game file using a hex editor.
Example Sentences
- "I don't even know how to put a hex in my game if a friend makes me something."
- "Modding this was called “hexing” in the community. This was because you did it with a hex editor, reading through the numbers in the files to find the “ballz” and “linez” that made up the Petz and the variables that determined their size, position, and color."
Etymology
First attested about 1830, from Pennsylvania German hexe (“to practice witchcraft”), from German hexen (compare Hexe (“witch”)). The noun appeared later, in the 1850s. Cognate to Norwegian Bokmål heks (“witch”) and Dutch heks (“witch”), Dutch beheksen (“to bewitch”), Old English hægtesse (“witch, hag”). Doublet of hag.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: hexe, hexen