prepaid

/pɹiːˈpeɪd/adjective, noun, verb

prepaid is spelled P-R-E-P-A-I-D: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,589th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, prepaid means “Paid for in advance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in prepaid?

Letters	7: P-R-E-P-A-I-D
Syllables	2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	2.0 times per million words; the 19,589th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

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).

How common is prepaid?

Prepaid appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,589th most frequent word form in the list.

prepaid0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce prepaid?

/pɹiːˈpeɪd/

Prepaid 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-prepaid.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of prepaid

prepaids plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does prepaid mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

1
Paid for in advance.

noun

1
Something paid for in advance.

verb

1
simple past and past participle of prepay (a form of prepay)