taux
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#779
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
taux is aFrenchnoun. It means: Prix, montant, tarif fixé par l'État. Pronounced \to\. It ranks #779 in French word frequency. Often confused with tu and tx.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \to\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for taux is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \to\. Corpus data places it at rank #779 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for taux, with forms such as "atux", "tauxx", and "taxu". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "tx", "tué", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is taux, spelled T-A-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prix, montant, tarif fixé par l'État.
- 2Frais de justice, des fonds publics, etc.
- 3Loyer de l’argent, montant des intérêts réglés, établis ou stipulés par la loi.
- 4Taux d’intérêt déterminé par le marché, rendement.
- 5Proportion, rapport entre différentes grandeurs ; fréquence pendant un intervalle déterminé,
- 6Proportion, teneur.
- 7Valeur, tarif, montant.
- 8Somme à laquelle une personne est taxée pour ses impositions ; taxation.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atux,tauxx,taxu,ttaux,tuax
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for taux
Misspelling Variants of "taux"
Frequency rank: #779 in French
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Nearby French words
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