how to pronounce taxi

/ˈtæksiː/

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the above transcription of taxi is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

taxi is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of taxi in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… comparable to taking a car or taxi as …”

meaning of taxi

Taxi is a type of vehicle that is used to transport people from one place to another.

taxi frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word taxi occurs in english on average 14 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics taxi can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that taxi can be often used in the following areas:

1) transport and travel;