paies
\pɛ\
The verdict
“paies” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,619. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,619
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de paie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paies · paies · French
paies · rank #19,619 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,619
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH ouh
Nearest frequency peer: ouh (-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 « paies »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- opèrent
opèrent
80,385 corpus weight
- ost
ost
80,384 corpus weight
- ouh
ouh
80,383 corpus weight
- paies
paies
80,382 corpus weight
- pansement
pansement
80,381 corpus weight
- Paraguay
Paraguay
80,380 corpus weight
What this shows « paies » 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 | paies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « paies »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around paies (IPA \pɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,619 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de paie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for paies, with forms such as "apies", "paeis", and "paiess". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pas", "pis", "pie", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is paies, spelled P-A-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de paie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how paies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Céline Thiébault dans la cuisine avait distribué les paies et l’un après l’autre, sans hâte, les journaliers quittaient Hurtebise.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apies
- paeis
- paiess
- paise
- piaes
- ppaies
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of paies - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "paies", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).