payement
\pɛ.mɑ̃\
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
- paralympique
paralympique
66,609 corpus weight
- paraîtrait
paraîtrait
66,608 corpus weight
- paulette
paulette
66,607 corpus weight
- payement
payement
66,606 corpus weight
- pendent
pendent
66,605 corpus weight
- Perm
Perm
66,604 corpus weight
What this shows « payement » 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 | payement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #33,395 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « payement »
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
- 1Variante orthographique de paiement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how payement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
Mon hôtesse, baillez-moi un peu la bougette ; car nous allons faire un payement avec ces marchands que vous voyez là.
Antonyms
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.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).