severance payment
"severance-payment" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“severance payment” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Money that an employer pays to an employee when the employee leaves the company in case of layoffs, often in exchange for some kind of waiver.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | severance payment |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “severance payment” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for severance payment is 17 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 that an employer pays to an employee when the employee leaves the company in case of layoffs, often in exchange for some kind of waiver.".
No misspelling variants are generated for severance payment in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is severance payment, spelled S-E-V-E-R-A-N-C-E- -P-A-Y-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Money that an employer pays to an employee when the employee leaves the company in case of layoffs, often in exchange for some kind of waiver.
Synonyms
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 practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-E-V-E-R-A-N-C-E- -P-A-Y-M-E-N-T - 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.