payee
"payee" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“payee” is an uncommon English word, ranked #67,719 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #67,719
- frequency rank, English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - one to whom money is paid.
| 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) |
Where “payee” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for payee is 5 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #67,719 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
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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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Using “payee”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-A-Y-E-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.