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How to spell rent
What it means: To pay for the use of something.
In a sentence: We need to rent a movie for our family movie night.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as rennt or rant.
Same family: rents, rented, renting, rental, tenant. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: Rent comes from Old French 'rente', meaning income or payment, which itself comes from a Latin word related to 'render' or 'give back'. Over time, the word shifted from meaning a kind of income to the payment you make to use land, a house, or other property.
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