payment

Other forms of payment

plural

payments·

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 payment

What does payment mean?

payment means "a sum of money paid or a claim discharged". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in payment?

payment has 2 syllables: pay-ment. The stress falls on "pay". In IPA it is /ˈpeɪmənt/.

What is another word for payment?

Close synonyms include defrayal, defrayment, requital. 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.

What is the opposite of payment?

The recorded antonyms are nonpayment, nonpayment.

Is payment a common word?

payment is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 payment?

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