Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

real-estate tax

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.60 in modern English

Syllables: re-al-es-tate -tax
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of real estate tax.

Example Sentences

"In towns and cities a real-estate tax is supposed to be exclusively on landlords, and the owners of houses: but, ultimately, it is a tax on the tenants who rent the houses, for the rate of tax has much to do with the rate of rents. A real-estate tax, therefore, reaches all persons at last; […]"
"ALMOST anywhere in the United States, if you own a home you may fairly assume that someone who owns a home of equal value is paying much less in real-estate taxes than you are, and someone else is paying much more."
"My biggest issue was that our real-estate taxes increased by 600 percent between 1975 and 1980."

Inflected Forms

real-estate taxes (plural)

Questions

What does real-estate tax mean?: Alternative form of real estate tax.

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