give notice

verb

"give-notice" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“give notice” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To announce one's intent to leave a job; to inform an employer that one is leaving.

Corpus desk

Index EN-give-notice · give notice · English

give notice · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "G" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for give notice
PropertyValue
Headwordgive notice
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “give notice” in English

give noticesits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

give notice is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for give notice in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is give notice, spelled G-I-V-E- -N-O-T-I-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    To announce one's intent to leave a job; to inform an employer that one is leaving.
  2. 2
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see give, notice.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how give notice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. He gave notice yesterday that he'll leave in two weeks.
  2. Did you hear that Jack gave notice today?

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "give notice"?
"give notice" is spelled G-I-V-E- -N-O-T-I-C-E.
What does "give notice" mean?
As a verb, "give notice" means: To announce one's intent to leave a job; to inform an employer that one is leaving.
What language does "give notice" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list