I have fun playing Wordfeud, as I’ve mentioned before.  Sometimes I discover words by accident.  It’s a trick I learned from my husband who has a knack for throwing tiles down to spell a word that also racks up huge points.  (He’s cute, but an evil genius that way.)

Here’s a new word for you that uses both Z (10 points) and X (8 points): ZAX.  And I only had to use two of my own letters.

I was pleasantly surprised when my play worked.  The double-word score was a nice bonus.   But what does the word mean?

It couldn’t be the Dr. Seuss characters he called the Zax.

From Dr. Seuss’s story “The Zax”

Wordfeud doesn’t accept proper names or characters from books.   Even after the nice score, I couldn’t leave it alone.  I had to look it up.

Besides, what if my opponent asked me what it meant?  I had to know what this special three-letter word was.

Dictionary.com defines it as a “hatchetlike tool for cutting and punching nail holes in roofing slate.”  Hey!  I turned my AX into a hammer.  (Yes, I often laugh at my own jokes.)

I discovered a new wordexpanded my vocabulary!  However, it’s not a word that I’ll ever use in a conversation.  I’ll have to find a roofer first.  “So, Mr. Rooferguy, you gonna use a zax on that roofing slate?”  I don’t think so.

What’s important is that I got *counting on fingers* 38 points for those three letters.  (What?  I’m a word girl.)  My husband is laughing that I think that’s a big score.  Sigh.

Played any unusual words lately?  Do you have a favorite word that’s nearly impossible to use in a normal conversation?  Have you had a slate roof put on your house, so you’ve seen a zax in person?  Share, share, share.   😉