# tax vs te

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### tax
*noun · IPA /tæks/ · frequency rank #758*
Money or goods collected by a government (or an entity to whom the government has delegated this power, e.g. in tax farming) to fund itself and its services, for example by levying a charge on income, purchases (sales), property or harvest, other than that money which is collected by the government in exchange for specific goods (e.g. the purchase of surplus vehicles).

### te
*noun · IPA /tiː/ · frequency rank #6,422*
In solfège, the seventh note of a major scale (the note B in the fixed-do system): ti.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
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