payroll

Other forms of payroll

plural

payrolls·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about payroll

What does payroll mean?

payroll means "a list of employees and their salaries". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in payroll?

payroll has 2 syllables: pay-roll. The stress falls on "pay". In IPA it is /ˈpeɪˌɹoʊl/.

What is another word for payroll?

Close synonyms include paysheet, paysheet, payroll department. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is payroll a common word?

payroll is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with payroll?

5 words rhyme with payroll. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.