# pays vs plus

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### pays
*verb · IPA /peɪz/ · frequency rank #4,622*
third-person singular simple present indicative of pay

### plus
*preposition · IPA /plʌs/ · frequency rank #1,202*
And; sum of the previous one and the following one.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pays-vs-plus