payants

Name: payants, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\pɛ.jɑ̃\

/\pɛ.jɑ̃\/ adj

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“payants” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,934. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,934
frequency rank, French: 6,826
“P” headwords: 11
tracked misspellings: 12
confusable pairs

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-payants · payants · French

payants · rank #19,934 · 11 variants · 12 confusables

FREQ-MID #19,934
LEN-LONG 7 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
VAR-MID 11 variants
BOOK-DENSE 6,826
PHOTO-FINISH passagère

Nearest frequency peer: passagère (-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.

paranoïa

80,070
partitions

80,069
passagère

80,068
payants

80,067
PD

80,066
pea

80,065

What this shows « payants » 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).

payants vs payent

71% similar

payants vs plants

71% similar

payants vs payons

71% similar

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

Key facts for payants
Property	Value
Headword	payants
Language	French
Part of speech	Adjective
IPA	\pɛ.jɑ̃\
Letters	7
Frequency rank	#19,934
Misspellings tracked	11
Confusable pairs	12
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « payants »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.payantsse place ici:

#19,934

#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 « passagère » (#19,933), « PD » (#19,935), « partitions » (#19,932). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « payants » est au #19,934. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around payants (IPA \pɛ.jɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,934 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de payant.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for payants, with forms such as "apyants", "paaynts", and "payannts". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "payent", "plants", "payons", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is payants, spelled P-A-Y-A-N-T-S.

Definition

1
Masculin pluriel de payant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how payants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

« La concurrence déjà rude est accrue par l’offre large et gratuite proposée par les réseaux sociaux. Pour la moitié des 18-24 an, le visionnage de vidéos sur les réseaux réduit le temps consacré aux abonnements culturels payants », souligne Nicolas Reffait, de BearingPoint.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

apyants
paaynts
payannts
payanst
payantss
payantts
payatns
paynats
payyants
ppayants
pyaants

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

Edit distance from "payants"

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 "payants"?

"payants" is spelled P-A-Y-A-N-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛ.jɑ̃\.

What does "payants" mean?

As an adjective, "payants" means: Masculin pluriel de payant.

What words are commonly confused with "payants"?

"payants" is commonly confused with "payent", "plants", "payons". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "payants"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "payants" is \pɛ.jɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "payants" come from?

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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

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