détaxe
French, noun
détaxe is spelled D-É-T-A-X-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 132,154th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Détaxe is a French feminine noun meaning “removal, reduction or refund of tax” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of détaxer. With an accent, détaxé is a different word: “tax-free”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Remise ou diminution d’une taxe”.
What does détaxe mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineremoval, reduction or refund of tax
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
adjective
- 1
tax-free
verb
- 1
past participle of détaxer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Remise ou diminution d’une taxe.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of détaxe
- détaxée feminine
- détaxés masculine plural
- détaxées feminine plural
- détaxes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is détaxe in French?
détaxe appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).