paid
/peɪd/adjective, verb
paid is spelled P-A-I-D: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 132 times per million words in written English, the 792nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, paid means “Not free of charge; costing money” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in paid?
| Letters | 4: P-A-I-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 132 times per million words; the 792nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is paid?
Paid appears 132 times per million words in written English, the 792nd 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).
How do you pronounce paid?
- US /peɪd/
- Australia /pæɪd/
- /ped/
Paid has one syllable (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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Pvanp7-paid.wav, En-us-paid.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with paid?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as paid from its last stressed vowel (/eɪd/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: padi, diap.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does paid mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Not free of charge; costing money.
paid service
- 2
Receiving pay.
paid worker
- 3
For which pay is given.
paid holiday
- 4
slangHaving money (i.e. rich, wealthy, etc.).
I thought his house would be nicer than this. I thought that motherf*cker was paid.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of pay
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Paid in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | pago |
| Spanish | de pago , pagado, remunerado, con sueldo, salarial |
| German | bezahlt |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does paid come from?
From Middle English paid, payd, ipaid, ypayd, past participle of Middle English paien, payen (“to pay”), equivalent to pay + -ed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).