taxervstaxésWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: taxer is a verb, taxés is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“taxer” is a verb and “taxés” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#17,287
“taxer” frequency rank
#28,772
“taxés” frequency rank
46059
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature taxer taxés
Definition Régler, fixer le prix des denrées, des marchandises, de quelque autre chose que ce soit. Masculin pluriel de taxé.

Same sound, different letters: taxer vs taxés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 3 letters.

5 ch
taxer
5 ch
taxés

Homophone desk: taxer vs taxés

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: taxer and taxés carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ta.kse\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is averb, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46059, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

taxer is recorded at frequency rank #17,287, classified as averb, pronounced \ta.kse\. taxés is at rank #28,772, tagged as anadj, pronounced \tak.se\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 46059, this pair ranks #197,936 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of taxer vs taxés

Shared letters: atx. Private to "taxer": er. Private to "taxés": .

"taxer" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "taxés" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • taxeratxer · taexr · taxerr · taxre · taxxer · ttaxer · txaer

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "taxer" and "taxés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "taxer" is a verb and "taxés" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "taxer" vs "taxés" - which ranks higher?
"taxer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,287 in our French list, against #28,772 for "taxés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "taxer" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "taxés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #197,936 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "taxer" and "taxés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "taxées vs taxés". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #197,936 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list