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Spell Bee Word: Payment


Basic Details

Word: Payment

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: An amount of money paid, or the act of paying for something.

Synonyms: fee, settlement, remittance

How to Spell Payment

Syllables: pay - ment

Tricky part: Pay keeps its y when ment is added; nothing changes to i. Students sometimes write paiment, or end it with mant.

Watch out for: paiment, paymant, paymint

Memory tip: Pay + ment, with nothing removed: the y of pay stays, just as in enjoyment and employment.

Usage Examples

Example 1: We made the payment for the school trip through the app.

Example 2: The shopkeeper accepted payment by UPI.

Example 3: His final payment for the scooter is due next month.

Fun Fact

UPI, launched in India in 2016, lets people send payments instantly between bank accounts using just a phone.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Only one of these words takes the suffix ment to form a noun:

ment

a) buy
b) pay
c) earn
d) sell

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b) pay. Buy, sell and earn make nouns in other ways, such as sale and earnings; only pay takes ment.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The hotel asked for full paymant before check-in, so Dad had to call the bank to raise the limit on his card.

a) hotel
b) limit
c) paymant
d) raise

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c) paymant. The suffix is ment, with an e, as in enjoyment.

Mingle-Mangle

Unjumble the letters in the sentence to form a meaningful word:

The bank sent a reminder that the last nyeamtp on the loan was overdue.

a) payment
b) placement
c) pavement
d) pigment

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a) payment. Pigment has no y, and pavement and placement are longer than this seven-letter jumble.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is a form of payment?

a) a menu
b) a cheque
c) a shopping list
d) a price tag

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b) a cheque

2. A late payment is one that ____.

a) arrives after the due date
b) is paid in advance
c) is never asked for
d) is paid in coins

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a) arrives after the due date

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