payable
\pɛ.jabl\
The verdict
“payable” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,449. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,449
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui doit être payé à certains termes ou à certaines personnes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-payable · payable · French
payable · rank #39,449 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,449
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pavage
Nearest frequency peer: pavage (-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 « payable »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pattern
pattern
60,555 corpus weight
- paumés
paumés
60,554 corpus weight
- pavage
pavage
60,553 corpus weight
- payable
payable
60,552 corpus weight
- PCI
PCI
60,550 corpus weight
- PCR
PCR
60,549 corpus weight
What this shows « payable » 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 | payable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɛ.jabl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « payable »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around payable (IPA \pɛ.jabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #39,449 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for payable, with forms such as "apyable", "paayble", and "payabble". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "potable", "payante", "payables", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is payable, spelled P-A-Y-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui doit être payé à certains termes ou à certaines personnes.
- 2Qui peut être payé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how payable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En ancien droit, les épices des juges étaient les dragées, confitures et autres présents en nature que les plaideurs offraient aux juges pendant un procès ; elles furent ensuite converties en argent et cessèrent d’être un cadeau volontaire pour devenir une taxe obligatoire, payable pour chaque pièce de procédure, si bien qu’elles constituaient une prime à…
2 000 $, tous les mois. Payable d'avance.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apyable
- paayble
- payabble
- payabel
- payablle
- payalbe
- paybale
- payyable
- ppayable
- pyaable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of payable - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).