payement

\pɛ.mɑ̃\

/\pɛ.mɑ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“payement” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,395. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#33,395
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de paiement.

Corpus desk

Index FR-payement · payement · French

payement · rank #33,395 · 12 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #33,395
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH paulette

Nearest frequency peer: paulette (-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 « payement »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « payement » 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).

payement vs payent
75% similar
payement vs purement
75% similar
payement vs placement
78% similar

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

Key facts for payement
PropertyValue
Headwordpayement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɛ.mɑ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#33,395
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « payement »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).payementse 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 « paulette » (#33,394), « pendent » (#33,396), « paraîtrait » (#33,393). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « payement » est au #33,395. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around payement (IPA \pɛ.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,395 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante orthographique de paiement.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for payement, with forms such as "apyement", "paeyment", and "payeemnt". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "payent", "purement", "placement", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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 payement, spelled P-A-Y-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Variante orthographique de paiement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Dès que le payement des frais à faire était garanti par le grand Cointet, il se promit de ruser avec Cachan et de faire briller son génie aux yeux du papetier, en créant des incidents qui retombassent à la charge de Métivier.
  2. Mon hôtesse, baillez-moi un peu la bougette ; car nous allons faire un payement avec ces marchands que vous voyez là.

Antonyms

impayementnon-payement

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • apyement
  • paeyment
  • payeemnt
  • payemennt
  • payementt
  • payemetn
  • payemment
  • payemnet
  • paymeent
  • payyement
  • ppayement
  • pyaement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of payement - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

apyement2paeyment2payeemnt2payemennt1payementt1payemetn2payemment1payemnet2
Edit distance from "payement"

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 "payement"?
"payement" is spelled P-A-Y-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛ.mɑ̃\.
What does "payement" mean?
As a noun, "payement" means: Variante orthographique de paiement.
What words are commonly confused with "payement"?
"payement" is commonly confused with "payent", "purement", "placement". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "payement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "payement" is \pɛ.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "payement" come from?
"payement" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list