repayment
"repayment" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“repayment” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #16,325. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,325
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of repaying.
Corpus desk
Index EN-repayment · repayment · English
repayment · rank #16,325 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,325
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH renal
Nearest frequency peer: renal (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “repayment”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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83,679 corpus weight
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83,678 corpus weight
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83,677 corpus weight
- repayment
repayment
83,676 corpus weight
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83,674 corpus weight
- rhythms
rhythms
83,673 corpus weight
What this shows “repayment” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repayment |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #16,325 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “repayment”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around repayment, anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,325 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for repayment, with forms such as "erpayment", "reapyment", and "repamyent". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From repay + -ment, also equivalent to re- + payment. The correct English form is repayment, spelled R-E-P-A-Y-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1The act of repaying.
- 2The money or other item that is repaid.
- 3The act of revenge, an act of revenge.
Etymology
From repay + -ment, also equivalent to re- + payment.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erpayment
- reapyment
- repamyent
- repayemnt
- repaymennt
- repaymentt
- repaymetn
- repaymment
- repaymnet
- repayyment
- reppayment
- repyament
- rpeayment
- rrepayment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of repayment - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).