payment
\peɪ.mənt\
The verdict
“payment” is uncommon French (frequency #69,301 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,301
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Paiement , payement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-payment · payment · French
payment · rank #69,301 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,301
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH payerais
Nearest frequency peer: payerais (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « payment »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- partys
partys
30,703 corpus weight
- patro
patro
30,702 corpus weight
- payerais
payerais
30,701 corpus weight
- payment
payment
30,700 corpus weight
- PDV
PDV
30,699 corpus weight
- pellegrino
pellegrino
30,698 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « payment » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | payment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \peɪ.mənt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « payment » en français
Rare enough to double-check
payment is uncommon French at frequency #69,301 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \peɪ.mənt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Paiement , payement.".
payment doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is payment, spelled P-A-Y-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Paiement , 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.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).