how to pronounce tax

/tæks/

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tax is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of tax in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… for those of us that do tax returns or …”

meaning of tax

Tax is a form of money collected from people in order to fund public services.

tax frequency in english - A1 level of CEFR

the word tax occurs in english on average 163.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics tax 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 tax can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;