# excise

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈɛkˌsaɪz/ · frequency rank #20,630

## Definitions
1. A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country).

## Etymology
From Middle Dutch excijs, altered under the influence of Latin excisus (“cut out, removed”), from earlier accijs (“tax”), from Old French acceis (“tax, assessment”) (whence modern French accise), from Vulgar Latin *accensum, ultimately from Latin ad + census (“tax, census”).

## Easily confused with
- **exist** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/excise-vs-exist)
- **exile** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/excise-vs-exile)
- **excuse** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/excise-vs-excuse)
- **expire** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/excise-vs-expire)
- **excite** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/excise-vs-excite)
- **exposé** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/excise-vs-expose)
- **excited** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/excise-vs-excited)
- **excused** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/excise-vs-excused)
- **exercise** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/excise-vs-exercise)
- **Elise** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/elise-vs-excise)
- **excess** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/excess-vs-excise)
- **Eloise** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/eloise-vs-excise)

## Common misspellings (8)
`ecxise`, `exccise`, `excies`, `excisse`, `excsie`, `exicse`, `exxcise`, `xecise`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/excise