pix
/pɪks/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.75 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Annual photo contest has brought in some pix by amateurs which are definitely in the professional category."
- "Photo selection can be tricky with space limitations, Arthur, and we blew that one. Hope the Scott pix in our January issue made you feel better about this."
- ""But it's not much good piling up the pix if I can't sell them.""
- "He nervously wrote down Amy’s instructions for what to say and how to behave if the police came back with a search warrant: […] take pix of damage afterward"
- "Mutual has started a campaign to substitute a word for the term “Movies.” It contemplates the use of the word “Pix” and thinks this would be welcomed as a short word for the headline writer and amply descriptive."
- "[F]oraſmuche as we have often and many tymes, to our inwarde regrete and diſpleaſure, ſeen at oure Jen, in diverſe and many Churches of our Realme, the holie Sacrament of the Aulter kept in ful simple and inhoneſt Pixes, ſpecially Pixes of copre and tymbre: we have appointed and commaunded the Treſourer of our Chambre, and Maiſtre of our Juellhouſe, to cauſe to be made furthwith Pixes of ſilver and gilte, in a greate nombre, for the keping of the holie Sacrament of th'Aultre, after the faction of a Pixe that we have cauſed to be delivered to theim, […]"
Etymology
Abbreviation of pictures, first used in Variety in 1916, along with other similar words that the magazine calls slanguage.