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How to spell mortgage

hear itmort·gage/'mɔrgədʒ/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: A loan secured by property.

In a sentence: The family paid their mortgage each month for their house.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as morgage or mortage.

Same family: mortgages, mortgaged, mortgaging, mortgagee, mortgagor. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Mortgage comes from Old French words meaning 'dead pledge'—the idea was that the pledge (the claim on the property) would die when the loan was fully repaid. Over time, the word came to refer specifically to the legal agreement used to secure a loan for property.

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