payed
payed is the obsolete spelling of paid.
payed is the misspelling of paid.
payed is the simple past and past participle of pay.
Meaning of paid
Adjective
paid (not comparable)
Meaning of pay
Verb
pay (third-person singular simple present pays, present participle paying, simple past and past participle paid or (obsolete) payed)
- To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
- pay cash or pay in cash, pay by credit/debit card
- To deposit into an account.
- I pay a portion of each paycheck into a savings account.
- To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
- to pay compensation, to pay a fine
- To be profitable; to be worth it.
- It didn't pay him to keep the store open any more.
- To cover, as a cost.
- Those investments paid for her college education.
- To yield as a benefit.
- to pay dividends; to pay interest
Origin of payed
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Phrases with payed
Questions about payed
- What is payed the obsolete spelling of?
- Payed is the obsolete spelling of paid.
Words near payed in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: payed (page history and authors); paid (page history and authors); pay (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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