taxi

Other forms of taxi

plural

taxies

past tense

taxied·

present participle

taxying

third person

taxis·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about taxi

What does taxi mean?

taxi means "travel slowly". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in taxi?

taxi has 2 syllables: tax-i. The stress falls on "tax". In IPA it is /ˈtæksi/.

What is another word for taxi?

Close synonyms include cab, cab, hack, taxicab. 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 taxi a common word?

taxi is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.