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How to spell insurance

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. Often misspelled as insurence or ensurance.

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.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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