How to spell jaunt

hear itjaunt/dʒɔnt/nounLong vowels

What it means: A short trip taken for enjoyment.

In a sentence: We went on a fun jaunt to the park today.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as jauntt or jant.

Same family: jaunts, jaunted, jaunting, excursion, outing. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Jaunt” likely comes from an old French word meaning “tire a horse by riding it back and forth,” and later came to mean any lively trip. Over time, the tiring ride turned into the idea of a fun, short journey for pleasure.

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