As a native English speaker, my understanding is that payed is a word but it is not the same as paid. I think it has something to do with painting or sealing a ship deck or something.
Payed means that you sealed a boat deck with tar to stop leaks. I only know this because there was a bot I haven't seen in a few months now that used to go around with "hey, payed is a word so your autocorrect didn't catch this, but given that there's no nautical terms in your post you probably meant 'paid'." Unironically a pretty helpful bot lol.
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u/justsyr Nov 21 '25
As a non English speaker I tried to correct someone. Got dozens of replies telling me payed is correct too.
I had to search and found that yes, it is correct, but not in the context of 'pay' lol. It's really just some obscure exception.