How to spell warranty

hear itwar·ran·ty/'wɔrənti/nounRules and real life

What it means: a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications

In a sentence: The new bike came with a warranty to fix it if it breaks.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double r, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as warrenty or waranty.

Same family: warrant, warranted, warranting, guarantee. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Warranty” comes from Old North French *warantie*, related to “warrant,” meaning a protector or defender. Over time, the word shifted from the idea of protection to the modern sense of a written promise to repair or replace something.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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