payait
\pɛ.jɛ\
The verdict
“payait” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,698. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,698
- 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 singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de payer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-payait · payait · French
payait · rank #16,698 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,698
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pauses
Nearest frequency peer: pauses (-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 « payait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- parme
parme
83,307 corpus weight
- partons
partons
83,306 corpus weight
- pauses
pauses
83,304 corpus weight
- payait
payait
83,303 corpus weight
- penseurs
penseurs
83,302 corpus weight
- perfect
perfect
83,300 corpus weight
What this shows « payait » 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 | payait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛ.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « payait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around payait (IPA \pɛ.jɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,698 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de payer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for payait, with forms such as "apyait", "paayit", and "payaitt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "plait", "Payet", "payot", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is payait, spelled P-A-Y-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de payer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how payait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au début, on dormait chez un frère de village qui travaillait à la chaîne Avion, puis on a loué une piaule à 300 F par mois et chacun payait 50 F.
Chris payait pour tout, l’essence, les repas, les bars, et je dois bien avouer que ça m’arrangeait un brin, parce qu’à ce moment-là de mon exode j’étais pas loin d’être sec comme un coucou sec.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apyait
- paayit
- payaitt
- payati
- payiat
- payyait
- ppayait
- pyaait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of payait - 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).