repay

Other forms of repay

past tense or participle

repaid

present participle

repaying·

third person

repays·

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 repay

What does repay mean?

repay means "pay back". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in repay?

repay has 2 syllables: re-pay. The stress falls on "pay". In IPA it is /ɹiˈpeɪ/.

What is another word for repay?

Close synonyms include refund, return, give back, requite, reward. 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 repay a common word?

repay 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 repay?

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