paid
\ˈpeɪd\
The verdict
“paid” is uncommon French (frequency #58,813 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,813
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Prétérit et participe passé du verbe to pay.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paid |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈpeɪd\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #58,813 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “paid” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
paid is uncommon French at frequency #58,813 among 248,534 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈpeɪd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prétérit et participe passé du verbe to pay.".
Zero misspellings are on record for paid in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is paid, spelled P-A-I-D.
Definition
- 1Prétérit et participe passé du verbe to pay.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “paid”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-A-I-D - 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.