severance pay
"severance-pay" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“severance pay” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Money paid as compensation to someone whose employment is ended, often in exchange of waiver.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | severance pay |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “severance pay” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for severance pay is 13 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Money paid as compensation to someone whose employment is ended, often in exchange of waiver.".
severance pay has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is severance pay, spelled S-E-V-E-R-A-N-C-E- -P-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Money paid as compensation to someone whose employment is ended, often in exchange of waiver.
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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- The one correct English spelling is S-E-V-E-R-A-N-C-E- -P-A-Y - 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.