X has never been a common initial letter in English, and even with today’s enormous vocabulary you can still only expect around 0.02 percent of the words in a dictionary to be listed under it.

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The number of words starting with the letter X continued to rise until it reached the 400 that we have today. Next, see if you can guess the most common letter in the English language.

10. The letter x makes the /ks/ sound when it comes at the end of a word, but when it comes at the beginning of a word it can either say its name as in x-ray, or make the /z/ sound as in xylophone.

Out of a total of 308,000 entries in the Oxford English Dictionary, just 366 words begin with the letter "x", and very few of those make it into most people's vocabulary.

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Such words as do start with the letter, such as xenophobia or xylophone, are from Greek, and the X is pronounced more as a Z. It is Greek, none the less, that brought the use of X as an ...