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How to spell payment

What it means: An amount of money given for goods or services.

In a sentence: Mom made a payment for the new toy. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as paymant or paiment.

Same family: pay, pays, paid, paying, repayment. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Payment comes from the verb pay, which entered English from Old French 'paier', meaning 'to settle or satisfy a debt'. The ending '-ment' is a common French–Latin suffix that turns verbs into nouns meaning 'the act of' doing something.

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