taxi

/\tak.si\/ noun

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.

Key facts for taxi
PropertyValue
Headwordtaxi
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tak.si\
Letters4
Frequency rank#4,384
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of taxi in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    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 transportent les passagers entre des points prédéterminés : stations, arrêts de bus, gares).
  2. 2
    Chauffeur de taxi.
  3. 3
    Hélicoptère, avion.
  4. 4
    Phase de roulage d’un aéronef.
  5. 5
    Transport de troupes blindé.
  6. 6
    Fait, pour un cavalier ou une cavalière, d’être en retard lors d’un saut d’obstacle en restant bien assis sur sa selle.
  7. 7
    Personne, entreprise qui délivre des fausses factures aux entreprise qui fraudent à la TVA.

Synonyms

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"

atxi4taix4taxxi5ttaxi5txai4
Misspelling Variants of "taxi"

Frequency rank: #4,384 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "taxi"?
"taxi" is spelled T-A-X-I. The IPA pronunciation is \tak.si\.
What does "taxi" mean?
As a noun, "taxi" 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...
What words are commonly confused with "taxi"?
"taxi" is commonly confused with "tx", "toi", "tri". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "taxi"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "taxi" is \tak.si\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "taxi" come from?
"taxi" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.