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How to spell rent

Rent is spelled R-E-N-T.

hear itrent/rɛnt/verbSounds

What it means: To pay for the use of something.

In a sentence: We need to rent a movie for our family movie night.

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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