paid
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The verdict
“paid” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #44,122) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #44,122
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs pay
Corpus desk
Index DE-paid · paid · German
paid · rank #44,122 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,122
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH ox
Nearest frequency peer: ox (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „paid“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- ostwärts
ostwärts
55,883 corpus weight
- Outing
Outing
55,881 corpus weight
- ox
ox
55,880 corpus weight
- paid
paid
55,879 corpus weight
- passiver
passiver
55,877 corpus weight
- Pflegeheimen
Pflegeheimen
55,875 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „paid“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paid |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #44,122 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „paid“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for paid is neighbouring look-alikes ("pi", "Pd", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced […]. Frequency #44,122 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs pay".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for paid, with forms such as "apid", "padi", and "paidd". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pi", "Pd", "par", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is paid, spelled P-A-I-D.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs pay
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apid
- padi
- paidd
- ppaid
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of paid - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).