Paycheck

Definition: Paycheck

Paycheck

Noun

1. A check issued in payment of wages or salary.

Synonym: Paycheck

Synonym: payroll check (n). (additional references)

Modern Usage: Paycheck

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Ah, if there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say. (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.) I've gotten lazy on a steady paycheck. Hell, the Fish doesn't know what to do with me anyway. (Laughing Boy; writing credit: Brazil Joseph Grisaffi III; George Douglas Lee) Jake, I need you to sign my paycheck. (Good Morning, Miami; writing credit: James Grissom; David Kohan) I remember the day I got my first paycheck. There was a cave-in in one of the mines, and eight people were killed. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) I looked into it more deeply and I found that apparently what happened is that he was laid off five years ago and no one ever told him, but through some kind of glitch in the payroll department, he still gets a paycheck. (Office Space; writing credit: Mike Judge)
Lyrics	And let her know her grandchild is a baby, and not a paycheck ("Ms. Jackson"; performing artist: Outkast)
Movie/TV Titles	Paycheck (2003)
Song Titles	Take This Job & Shove It (performing artist: Johnny Paycheck)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Commercial Usage: Paycheck

Domain	Title
Books	Financial Freedom Afloat: How to Pocket a Paycheck in Paradise (reference) Give-To-Get Leadership: The Secret of the Hidden Paycheck (reference) Make Your Paycheck Last (reference) The Janus Employability Skills Program: Payday - Managing Your Paycheck (The Janus Employability Skills Program) (reference) The Worker Paycheck Fairness Act: Ending the Involuntary Use of Union Dues [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) (more book examples)

Music	The Best of Johnny Paycheck (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Image Slideshow: Paycheck

Top

Non-Fiction Usage: Paycheck

Subject	Topic	Quote
Political Economy	SPAIN	The employee receives his/her annual salary in 14 payments: one paycheck each month and an "extra" check in June and in December. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Top

Speeches: Paycheck

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	How often we read of a husband and wife both working, struggling from paycheck to paycheck to raise a family, meet a mortgage, pay their taxes and bills.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	Tens of millions of Americans live from paycheck to paycheck.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top

Usage Frequency: Paycheck

"Paycheck" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Paycheck" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	5	157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Paycheck

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
paycheck advance	333	paycheck withholding	10
paycheck calculator	273	paycheck cash advance	10
paycheck	271	calculator free paycheck	9
paycheck loan	159	final paycheck	8
johnny paycheck	111	paycheck sample	8
paycheck city	100	city.com paycheck	8
payday paycheck loan	69	paycheck advance loan	7
paycheck cash loan	54	sample paycheck stub	6
paycheck in advance	48	it job johnny lyrics paycheck shove take this	6
paycheck stub	31	inc paycheck	6
paycheck tax	25	advance approval loan paycheck	6
paycheck deduction	17	paycheck pistol	5
calculate paycheck	16	cut paycheck tax	5
paycheck tax calculator	16	paycheck withholding calculator	5
paycheck calculation	16	paycheck retirement	5
johnny paycheck lyrics	15	paycheck software	5
calculator online paycheck	11	paycheck after tax	5
movie paycheck	11	figure paycheck	5
paycheck estimator	11	paycheck deduction calculator	4
paycheck for life	10	online paycheck advance	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Modern Translations: Paycheck

Language		Translations for "paycheck"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏شيك أجر العمل. (various references)

Bulgarian		чек за надница, чек за заплата, надница (pay, remuneration, screw, wage), заплата (earnings, emolument, pay, remuneration, salary, screw, stipend, wage). (various references)

Chinese		�"�付薪金�"�票. (various references)

German		Gehaltsscheck. (various references)

Greek		εκκαθαριστικό σημείωμα. (various references)

Hungarian		fizetési csekk. (various references)

Korean		봉급지불수표. (various references)

Pig Latin		aycheckpay

Portuguese		local onde se paga. (various references)

Russian		зарплата (pay, salary, wage, wages). (various references)

Swedish		lönecheck. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top

Derivations & Misspellings: Paycheck

Derivations
	Words beginning with "paycheck": paychecks. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Paycheck" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Boychuk, Palchok, paychex, Puchacz. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top

Anagrams: Paycheck

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-h-k-p-y"
	-2 letters: peachy.
	-3 letters: cache, cakey, chape, cheap, check, hacek, peach, peaky, pecky, yecch.
	-4 letters: ache, achy, cake, caky, cape, caph, ceca, chap, chay, each, epha, hack, hake, heap, heck, hype, kaph, pace, pack, peak, pech, peck, yack, yeah, yech.
	-5 letters: ace, ape, aye, cap, cay, cep, hae, hap, hay, hep, hey, hyp, kae, kay, kea.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-h-k-p-y"
	+1 letter: paychecks.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.