payot

\pa.jo\

/\pa.jo\/ noun

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The verdict

“payot” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,519. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#32,519
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gadjo, non-gitan.

Corpus desk

Index FR-payot · payot · French

payot · rank #32,519 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #32,519
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pavie

Nearest frequency peer: pavie (-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 « payot »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « payot » 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).

payot vs pot
60% similar
payot vs pays
60% similar
payot vs plot
60% similar

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

Key facts for payot
PropertyValue
Headwordpayot
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pa.jo\
Letters5
Frequency rank#32,519
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « payot »

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

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « pavie » (#32,518), « pendue » (#32,520), « passerons » (#32,517). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « payot » est au #32,519. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around payot (IPA \pa.jo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,519 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for payot, with forms such as "apyot", "paoyt", and "payott". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pot", "pays", "plot", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is payot, spelled P-A-Y-O-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Gadjo, non-gitan.
  2. 2
    Bouffon.
  3. 3
    Pébron, ivrogne.
  4. 4
    Insulte le plus souvent utilisée par les Maghrébins, mais qui tend à se généraliser, pour désigner quelqu'un d'une autre communauté que la sienne.  ^([2])

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Elle s’est casée avec un payot.
  2. Ne plus être un payot - une payotte - un bouffon - une quiche.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • apyot
  • paoyt
  • payott
  • payto
  • payyot
  • ppayot
  • pyaot

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of payot - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

apyot2paoyt2payott1payto2payyot1ppayot1pyaot2
Edit distance from "payot"

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 "payot"?
"payot" is spelled P-A-Y-O-T. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.jo\.
What does "payot" mean?
As a noun, "payot" means: Gadjo, non-gitan.
What words are commonly confused with "payot"?
"payot" is commonly confused with "pot", "pays", "plot". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "payot"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "payot" is \pa.jo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "payot" come from?
"payot" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

pavie#32,518pesos#32,524osons#32,510publi#32,538

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

quils7 variantsmouette7 variantsMoses7 variantslègue7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list