X
\ˈɛks], \ˈɛks], \ˈɛ_k_s]\
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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X, the twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet, has three sounds; a compound nonvocal sound (that of ks), as in wax; a compound vocal sound (that of gz), as in example; and, at the beginning of a word, a simple vocal sound (that of z), as in xanthic.
By Noah Webster.
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Twenty-fourth letter of the alphabet. As a Roman numeral, it stands for ten; after a proper name, for the tenth, as Leo X.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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the twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet, is borrowed, as to its form, from the Greek X, and is not found as an initial letter, with one exception, unless in words of Greek origin. It is called a consonant or compound consonantal sound, being at once guttural, palatal, and sibilant. At the end of words it has the sound of ks, as in wax; in the middle, the sound of ks, or sometimes of gz, as in axis, example. At the beginning of a words, x is pronounced as z.
