Yes. GOX is a valid word.
GOX is valid in the North American word list used for the Scrabble board game and other crossword tile games.
GOX is in the NASPA Word List 2023 (NWL2023), the North American list that Tileside uses for challenges and the one used in club and tournament play.
About GOX
GOX is gaseous oxygen, a word from rocketry, and its partner LOX is liquid oxygen; GOX has the plural GOXES. With a G, an O and the 8-point X it is worth 11 before any bonus. Learn the pair together: LOX in the tank, GOX when it boils off. Engineers say the letters as a word, gox, the same way they say lox for liquid oxygen.
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GOX scores 11 points
Before any bonus squares: G 2 + O 1 + X 8 = 11. On a double-word square that's 22, on a triple-word 33, and every letter bonus under one of these tiles is applied first.
Example: GOX as the first play
Later in the game, put the X on a 3L square and GOX is worth 27 before any word bonus.
Longer words from GOX
Other forms of GOX (1):
Change one tile
Swap any one letter of GOX and these are still words:
- BOXto put in a rectangular container
- COXto coxswain
- DOXto attack by publishing private information
- FOXto outwit
- LOXto supply with liquid oxygen
- POXto infect with a disease marked by skin eruptions
- SOXform of SOCK: a knitted or woven covering for the foot; to strike forcefully
- VOXsame as VOICE: to express or utter
Same letters, other words
No other word in the list uses exactly the letters G, O and X.
Memory tip
GOX is gaseous oxygen, the gas form of LOX. Rocket scientists' words: LOX for the liquid, GOX for the gas.
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