TVA

/\te.ve.a\/ noun

Letters

3 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,450

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

TVA is aFrenchnoun. It means: Impôt indirect sur la consommation, perçu par l’administration fiscale sur la valeur ajoutée réalisée à chaque étape de la production et de la commercialisation des biens et services, et supporté i... Pronounced \te.ve.a\. It ranks #4,450 in French word frequency. Often confused with ty and tx.

Key facts for TVA
PropertyValue
HeadwordTVA
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\te.ve.a\
Letters3
Frequency rank#4,450
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for TVA is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \te.ve.a\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,450 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Impôt indirect sur la consommation, perçu par l’administration fiscale sur la valeur ajoutée réalisée à chaque étape de la production et de la commercialisation des biens et services, et supporté i...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for TVA in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ty", "tx", "two", 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 TVA, spelled T-V-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Impôt indirect sur la consommation, perçu par l’administration fiscale sur la valeur ajoutée réalisée à chaque étape de la production et de la commercialisation des biens et services, et supporté in fine par le consommateur final.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #4,450 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "TVA"?
"TVA" is spelled T-V-A. The IPA pronunciation is \te.ve.a\.
What does "TVA" mean?
As a noun, "TVA" means: Impôt indirect sur la consommation, perçu par l’administration fiscale sur la valeur ajoutée réalisée à chaque étape de la production et de la commercialisation des biens et services, et supporté i...
What words are commonly confused with "TVA"?
"TVA" is commonly confused with "ty", "tx", "two". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "TVA"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "TVA" is \te.ve.a\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "TVA" come from?
"TVA" 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.