severance payment
"severance-payment" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“severance payment” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.
Corpus desk
Index EN-severance-payment · severance payment · English
severance payment · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | severance payment |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “severance payment” in English
Rare enough to double-check
severance payment is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how severance payment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And it gets worse. Barcelona will have to pay even more if he is fired in the interim. Last week, TV3 reported that a high severance payment - amounting to a total of about 12m euros - is on the table.
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.