copayment
noun
copayment is a noun meaning “A fixed fee paid by subscribers to a medical insurance scheme for each treatment or service in addition to a membership fee” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-P-A-Y-M-E-N-T and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of copayment is copayments.
What does copayment mean?
noun
- 1
USA fixed fee paid by subscribers to a medical insurance scheme for each treatment or service in addition to a membership fee.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce copayment?
Copayment has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of copayment
- copayments plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is copayment?
Copayment appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does copayment come from?
From co- + payment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).