payback

Other forms of payback

plural

paybacks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about payback

What does payback mean?

payback means "financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in payback?

payback has 2 syllables: pay-back. The stress falls on "pay". In IPA it is /ˈpeɪˌbæk/.

What is another word for payback?

Close synonyms include vengeance, retribution. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is payback a common word?

payback is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with payback?

34 words rhyme with payback. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.