paya
\pɛ.ja\
The verdict
“paya” is uncommon French (frequency #50,408 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,408
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de payer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paya · paya · French
paya · rank #50,408 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,408
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pavaner
Nearest frequency peer: pavaner (-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 « paya »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Pauwels
Pauwels
49,595 corpus weight
- pavaner
pavaner
49,594 corpus weight
- paya
paya
49,593 corpus weight
- pec
pec
49,592 corpus weight
- penguin
penguin
49,591 corpus weight
- percevant
percevant
49,590 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « paya » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paya |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛ.ja\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « paya » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paya is uncommon French at frequency #50,408 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɛ.ja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de payer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for paya in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is paya, spelled P-A-Y-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de payer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how paya appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il décida de l’attendre, commanda un Cinzano qu’il paya immédiatement.
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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