paid
\ˈpeɪd\
The verdict
“paid” is uncommon French (frequency #58,813 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,813
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prétérit et participe passé du verbe to pay.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paid · paid · French
paid · rank #58,813 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,813
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pagodes
Nearest frequency peer: pagodes (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « paid »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- outer
outer
41,191 corpus weight
- P5
P5
41,190 corpus weight
- pagodes
pagodes
41,189 corpus weight
- paid
paid
41,188 corpus weight
- panafricain
panafricain
41,187 corpus weight
- panafricaine
panafricaine
41,186 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « paid » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « paid » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paid is uncommon French at frequency #58,813 among 6,826 “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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