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How to spell insurance

Insurance is spelled I-N-S-U-R-A-N-C-E. It starts IN-, as in insure, and ends -ANCE: in-sur-ance.

What it means: Protection against future loss.

In a sentence: The family bought insurance to protect their house. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: insured, insurer, uninsured, reinsurance. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Insurance” comes from the verb “insure,” which developed from Old French *enseurer*, meaning “to make sure or secure.” The noun ending “-ance” turns the action of insuring into the thing itself — the insurance contract or system.

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