surtax

Questions about surtax

What does surtax mean?

surtax means "an additional tax on certain kinds of income that has already been taxed". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in surtax?

surtax has 2 syllables: sur-tax. The stress falls on "sur". In IPA it is /ˈsɝˌtæks/.

What is another word for surtax?

Close synonyms include supertax. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is surtax a common word?

surtax is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with surtax?

3 words rhyme with surtax. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.