taxa
/ˈta.ʃɐ/
The verdict
“taxa” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #1,590 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,590
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 4
- letters
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - pagamento individualizado feito por pessoa física ou jurídica pelo uso de algum serviço público
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taxa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈta.ʃɐ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,590 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “taxa” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for taxa is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈta.ʃɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,590 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for taxa, with forms such as "atxa", "taax", and "taxxa". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tua", "tia", "TEA", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is taxa, spelled T-A-X-A.
Definition
- 1pagamento individualizado feito por pessoa física ou jurídica pelo uso de algum serviço público
- 2coeficiente de juros que incide sobre o valor de algo
- 3valor determinado que se cobra por alguns serviços (públicos ou privados)
- 4por extensão, todo imposto ou tributo que se cobra sobre bens e serviços
- 5instrumento de governança usado para conter o fluxo de mercadorias, em geral importadas, com fins de obter maior equilíbrio nas contas externas ou da inflação pelo controle do consumo pelo aumento dos preços assim tributados ou, ainda, como mecanismo de pressão econômica e política
- 6valor que se acresce a um serviço por aquilo que excede o básico oferecido em razão de vantagem, uso a mais, etc.
- 7valor em porcentagem calculada dentro de um conjunto
- 8(no plural) pagamento em dinheiro ao vigário
- 9limite; modo
- 10tipo de razão que representa o quociente de duas quantidades ou grandezas diferentes resultando uma nova grandeza ou medida, frequentemente representada como uma fração, usada para calcular, por exemplo, a velocidade média (distância percorrida e tempo gasto resultando, v.g., em quilômetros por hora), frequência cardíaca, fluxos, etc.
- 11por extensão, o cálculo usado em matemática financeira para saber-se o rendimento de juros em certo tempo
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atxa,taax,taxxa,ttaxa,txaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of taxa - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “taxa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is T-A-X-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈta.ʃɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “tua” - see the side-by-side comparison. taxa vs tua
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.