payante

\pɛ.jɑ̃t\

/\pɛ.jɑ̃t\/ adj

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The verdict

“payante” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,961. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,961
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
18
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de payant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-payante · payante · French

payante · rank #15,961 · 10 variants · 18 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,961
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH passeports

Nearest frequency peer: passeports (-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 « payante »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « payante » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

payante vs Payne
57% similar
payante vs plante
71% similar
payante vs payent
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for payante
PropertyValue
Headwordpayante
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\pɛ.jɑ̃t\
Letters7
Frequency rank#15,961
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « payante »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).payantese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « passeports » (#15,960), « perruque » (#15,962), « participatif » (#15,959). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « payante » est au #15,961. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around payante (IPA \pɛ.jɑ̃t\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,961 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de payant.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for payante, with forms such as "apyante", "paaynte", and "payanet". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "Payne", "plante", "payent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is payante, spelled P-A-Y-A-N-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de payant.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • apyante
  • paaynte
  • payanet
  • payannte
  • payantte
  • payatne
  • paynate
  • payyante
  • ppayante
  • pyaante

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of payante - 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.

apyante2paaynte2payanet2payannte1payantte1payatne2paynate2payyante1
Edit distance from "payante"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "payante"?
"payante" is spelled P-A-Y-A-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛ.jɑ̃t\.
What does "payante" mean?
As an adjective, "payante" means: Féminin singulier de payant.
What words are commonly confused with "payante"?
"payante" is commonly confused with "Payne", "plante", "payent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "payante"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "payante" is \pɛ.jɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "payante" come from?
"payante" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "payante", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

possédé#15,965oriente#15,953pressés#15,969nantais#15,946

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

mêlent10 variantspython10 variantsMiranda10 variantsLeipzig10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list