payer
/ˈpeɪ.ɚ/noun
payer is spelled P-A-Y-E-R: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, payer means “One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of payer is payers.
How many letters and syllables are in payer?
| Letters | 5: P-A-Y-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.7 times per million words; the 21,798th 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 payer?
Payer appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,798th 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 payer?
- US /ˈpeɪ.ɚ/
Payer has 2 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). Recordings: En-us-payer.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with payer?
9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as payer from its last stressed vowel (/eɪəɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: repay, peary, rapey.
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).
Forms of payer
- payers plural
- payor
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does payer mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.
The company is the largest tax payer in the region.
- 2
A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the fixed leg and receive the floating leg.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Payer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense one who pays:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | payeur, payeuse |
| German | Zahler, Zahlerin |
| Portuguese | pagante, pagador |
| Spanish | pagador, pagadora |
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 payer come from?
From pay + -er (“subject of action”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).