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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)

  1. Not free of charge; costing money.
    • paid service
    Synonyms:
    nonfree, for-pay
    Antonyms:
    free, gratis
  2. Receiving pay.
    • paid worker
  3. For which pay is given.
    • paid holiday
  4. (slang) Having money (i.e. rich, wealthy, etc.).
    • I thought his house would be nicer than this. I thought that motherf*cker was paid.

Meaning of pay

Verb

pay (third-person singular simple present pays, present participle paying, simple past and past participle paid or (obsolete) payed)

  1. (ambitransitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
    • pay cash or pay in cash, pay by credit/debit card
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To deposit into an account.
    • I pay a portion of each paycheck into a savings account.
  3. (ambitransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
    • to pay compensation, to pay a fine
    Synonyms:
    pay off, repay
  4. (intransitive, transitive) To be profitable; to be worth it.
    • It didn't pay him to keep the store open any more.
  5. (intransitive) To cover, as a cost.
    • Those investments paid for her college education.
  6. (transitive) To yield as a benefit.
    • to pay dividends; to pay interest
    Synonyms:
    pay out, yield, return

See all 16 meanings of pay

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

  1. paydirt
  2. paydirts
  3. paydown
  4. paydowns
  5. PAYE
  6. payed
  7. payed out
  8. payedst
  9. payee
  10. payees
  11. payeeship

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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