payslip
"payslip" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“payslip” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A small document, included with an employee's wage or salary, giving details of money earned and tax and insurance paid.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | payslip |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “payslip” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
payslip is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A small document, included with an employee's wage or salary, giving details of money earned and tax and insurance paid.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for payslip in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From pay + slip. The correct English form is payslip, spelled P-A-Y-S-L-I-P.
Definition
- 1A small document, included with an employee's wage or salary, giving details of money earned and tax and insurance paid.
Etymology
From pay + slip.
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.
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Using “payslip”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-A-Y-S-L-I-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.