prépayer
French, verb/pʁe.pɛ.je/
prépayer is spelled P-R-É-P-A-Y-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 89 million words in written French, the 294,907th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prépayer is a French verb meaning “prepay (to pay in advance)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Payer à l’avance”.
What does prépayer mean in English?
verb
- 1
prepay (to pay in advance)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Payer à l’avance.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of prépayer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- prépayant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- prépayé participle past
- prépaye first-person indicative present
- prépaie first-person indicative present
- prépayes indicative present second-person
- prépaies indicative present second-person
- prépayons first-person indicative plural
- prépayez indicative plural present
- prépayent indicative plural present
- prépaient indicative plural present
- prépayais first-person imperfect indicative
- prépayait imperfect indicative singular
- prépayions first-person imperfect indicative
- prépayiez imperfect indicative plural
- prépayaient imperfect indicative plural
- prépayai first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce prépayer?
- /pʁe.pɛ.je/
- /pʁe.pe.je/
- \pʁe.pɛ.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to prépayer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is prépayer in French?
prépayer appears about once in every 89 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).