taxi dancer
"taxi-dancer" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“taxi dancer” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A woman who works as a professional dance partner in a dancehall that charges customers a price per dance.
Corpus desk
Index EN-taxi-dancer · taxi dancer · English
taxi dancer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taxi dancer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “taxi dancer” in English
Rare enough to double-check
taxi dancer is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A woman who works as a professional dance partner in a dancehall that charges customers a price per dance.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for taxi dancer in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Refers to the fact that a taxi dancer is paid per dance, and thus proportionately to the time spent with a client, similarly to a taxi driver. The correct English form is taxi dancer, spelled T-A-X-I- -D-A-N-C-E-R.
Definition
- 1A woman who works as a professional dance partner in a dancehall that charges customers a price per dance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how taxi dancer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They apparently remain taxi-dancers for only about a year or two[.]
Historically taxi-dancers were considered immoral women by the reformers of the nineteen-teens and twenties both because they participated with strangers in an activity generally reserved for established couples and because some engaged in various forms of prostitution.
Etymology
Refers to the fact that a taxi dancer is paid per dance, and thus proportionately to the time spent with a client, similarly to a taxi driver.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.