Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

repay

/ɹiˈpeɪ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.66 in modern English

Syllables: re-pay
IPA: /ɹiˈpeɪ/

10

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Synonym of pay back in all senses.

verb

To make worthwhile; to yield a result worth the effort; to pay off.

Transitive verb

verb

To give in return; requite.

Transitive verb

verb

To pay (cover with tar, pitch, etc.) again.

Example Sentences

"I finally repaid my student loans, just before sending my kids to college."
"I'll repay this wrong asap."
"But drops of Grief can ne’re repay / The debt of Love I owe, […]"
"On the results of the Kent Coast electrification, which is known to be repaying so far a satisfactory return on the investment in it, a Waterloo-Bournemouth scheme shows reasonable financial promise."
"I was low as low could go / Could not stand anymore / Oh, I could never, never / Never, never repay you"
"Returning to the school years later, Diakabana discovered it was a school guard. She wanted to repay him. "He told me to help others when I could, so I launched a scholarship program," says Diakabana, who now lives in Switzerland and is co-founder of The Luminous Agency, which focuses on digital literacy."

Etymology

From Old French repaier (“to pay back”), from re- + paiier (“to pay”), from Latin pācāre (“to settle, to make peaceful”), from pāx (“peace”) + -ō (forming verbs). Equivalent to re- + pay. Cognate with repacify and French repayer (“to pay again”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Prefix: re
Root: paco

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

repays (present, singular) repaying (participle, present) repaid (participle, past) repaid (past) repayed (participle, past) repayed (past)

Derived Forms

nonrepaying repayability repayable repayment repayor

Synonyms

liquidate pay back in all senses retort come back return riposte rejoin refund give back

Rhymes With

they way may day say one-way away play today pay stay re

Questions

How do you pronounce repay?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɹiˈpeɪ/.
What does repay mean?: Synonym of pay back in all senses.
Where does repay come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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