payer cher
Letters
10 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
payer cher is aFrenchverb. It means: Payer quelqu’un très cher. Pronounced \pɛ.je ʃɛʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | payer cher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛ.je ʃɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for payer cher is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛ.je ʃɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for payer cher in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is payer cher, spelled P-A-Y-E-R- -C-H-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Payer quelqu’un très cher.
- 2Subir des conséquences très douloureuses ou contraignantes en raison d'une faveur obtenue ou d'un geste posé.
- 3Être prêt à faire des sacrifices pour connaître la réalité des faits.
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