payoff

Other forms of payoff

plural

payoffs·

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 payoff

What does payoff mean?

payoff means "the final payment of a debt". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in payoff?

payoff has 2 syllables: pa-yoff. The stress falls on "pa". In IPA it is /ˈpeɪˌɔf/.

What is another word for payoff?

Close synonyms include final payment, bribe, return, issue, take. 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 payoff a common word?

payoff 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 payoff?

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