rental
/ˈɹɛntəl/noun, adjective
rental is a noun meaning “Something that is rented” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-N-T-A-L and has 2 syllables, and it appears 13 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rental is rentals.
What does rental mean?
noun
- 1
Something that is rented.
It's just a rental, so I don't need to take very good care of it.
- 2
The payment made to rent something.
- 3
A business that rents out something to its customers.
- 4
An act of renting.
- 5
A player traded to a team with a year or less on his contract
adjective
- 1
Relating to rent.
- 2
Relating to renting.
Deep welfare cuts and rising rents have resulted in a growing gap in many areas of the country between what help people on low incomes receive to cover their housing and what that housing actually costs in the private rental sector.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce rental?
- /ˈɹɛntəl/
Rental has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-rental.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of rental
- rentals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rental?
Rental appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 6,047th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Rental in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does rental come from?
From rent + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).