taxi
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,384
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
taxi is aFrenchnoun. It means: Véhicule automobile terrestre privé, conduit par un chauffeur, destiné au transport payant de passagers et de leurs bagages, de porte à porte (contrairement aux transports en commun, qui transporte... Pronounced \tak.si\. It ranks #4,384 in French word frequency. Often confused with tx and toi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taxi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tak.si\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,384 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for taxi is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tak.si\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,384 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 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 taxi, with forms such as "atxi", "taix", and "taxxi". 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, "tx", "toi", "tri", 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 taxi, spelled T-A-X-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Véhicule automobile terrestre privé, conduit par un chauffeur, destiné au transport payant de passagers et de leurs bagages, de porte à porte (contrairement aux transports en commun, qui transportent les passagers entre des points prédéterminés : stations, arrêts de bus, gares).
- 2Chauffeur de taxi.
- 3Hélicoptère, avion.
- 4Phase de roulage d’un aéronef.
- 5Transport de troupes blindé.
- 6Fait, pour un cavalier ou une cavalière, d’être en retard lors d’un saut d’obstacle en restant bien assis sur sa selle.
- 7Personne, entreprise qui délivre des fausses factures aux entreprise qui fraudent à la TVA.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atxi,taix,taxxi,ttaxi,txai
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for taxi
Misspelling Variants of "taxi"
Frequency rank: #4,384 in French
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