payee
"payee" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“payee” is uncommon English (frequency #67,719 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,719
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - one to whom money is paid.
Corpus desk
Index EN-payee · payee · English
payee · rank #67,719 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,719
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pawnbroker
Nearest frequency peer: pawnbroker (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “payee”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pappus
pappus
32,286 corpus weight
- pawnbroker
pawnbroker
32,283 corpus weight
- payee
payee
32,282 corpus weight
- peaty
peaty
32,281 corpus weight
- pedantry
pedantry
32,280 corpus weight
- Peltier
Peltier
32,278 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “payee” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | payee |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “payee” in English
Rare enough to double-check
payee is uncommon English at frequency #67,719 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "one to whom money is paid.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for payee, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From pay + -ee (“object of action”). The correct English form is payee, spelled P-A-Y-E-E.
Definition
- 1one to whom money is paid.
Etymology
From pay + -ee (“object of action”).
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).