"Paid" vs "payed"

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00:00 &Quot;Paid&Quot; Vs &Quot;Payed&Quot;
00:23 Accepted Answer Score 53
00:42 Answer 2 Score 58
01:06 Thank you

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ANSWER 1

Score 58

You should almost always use paid.

If you’re talking about money, or anything else that’s literally or figuratively acting like a transaction, then it’s paid: “Jane paid me ten dollars”, or “John played a practical joke on me, but I paid him back with a worse one!”

It’s only if you’re sailing, and dealing with ropes, that payed can be the correct form — “The skipper payed out the rope”, and similar.

ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 53

Paid or payed is the past tense of pay depending on the sense of pay. The first sense is the usual one of giving someone money while the second sense is to seal (the deck or seams of a wooden ship) with pitch or tar to prevent leakage.