payless
"payless" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“payless” is uncommon English (frequency #78,002 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,002
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unpaid
Corpus desk
Index EN-payless · payless · English
payless · rank #78,002 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,002
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH patronise
Nearest frequency peer: patronise (-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 “payless”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Patnaik
Patnaik
22,001 corpus weight
- patronise
patronise
22,000 corpus weight
- payless
payless
21,999 corpus weight
- pbk
pbk
21,998 corpus weight
- Pema
Pema
21,995 corpus weight
- percolation
percolation
21,994 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “payless” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | payless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “payless” in English
Rare enough to double-check
payless is uncommon English at frequency #78,002 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "unpaid".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for payless, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From pay + -less. The correct English form is payless, spelled P-A-Y-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1unpaid
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how payless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She accepted an unpaid position at Poke, a digital advertising agency on the Lower East Side, viewing her payless toiling as an investment in her career, an inexpensive alternative to graduate school.
Etymology
From pay + -less.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).