paient
\pɛ\
The verdict
“paient” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,358. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,358
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de payer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paient · paient · French
paient · rank #9,358 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,358
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paradoxe
Nearest frequency peer: paradoxe (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « paient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- navigateur
navigateur
90,646 corpus weight
- négligeable
négligeable
90,645 corpus weight
- paient
paient
90,643 corpus weight
- paradoxe
paradoxe
90,642 corpus weight
- paraissent
paraissent
90,641 corpus weight
- patrouille
patrouille
90,640 corpus weight
What this shows « paient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,358 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « paient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around paient (IPA \pɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,358 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for paient, with forms such as "apient", "paeint", and "paiennt". 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. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pain", "point", "peint", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is paient, spelled P-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de payer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de payer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les gens déposent leurs sacs devant les conteneurs et ne paient jamais.
Ce jeune homme, nommé Francisque Althor, le dandy du Havre, doué de la beauté vulgaire dont se paient les bourgeois, ce que les Anglais appellent un mastok (de bonnes grosses couleurs, de la chair, une membrure carrée, abandonna si bien sa fiancée au moment du désastre, qu’il n’avait plus revu ni Modeste, ni Mme Mignon, ni les Dumay.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apient
- paeint
- paiennt
- paientt
- paietn
- painet
- piaent
- ppaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of paient - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).