taxe
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,648
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
taxe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Tarification officielle fixant le prix de certaines denrées ou de certains services. Pronounced \taks\. It ranks #2,648 in French word frequency. Often confused with te and tx.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taxe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \taks\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for taxe is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \taks\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,648 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 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 taxe, with forms such as "atxe", "taex", and "taxxe". 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, "te", "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 taxe, spelled T-A-X-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tarification officielle fixant le prix de certaines denrées ou de certains services.
- 2Prélèvement obligatoire perçu par une collectivité publique en échange d’un service ou d’une prestation donnant lieu à une contrepartie individualisable.
- 3Synonyme courant d’impôt ou d’imposition, sans distinction technique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atxe,taex,taxxe,ttaxe,txae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for taxe
Misspelling Variants of "taxe"
Frequency rank: #2,648 in French
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