guarantee
guar·an·tee/ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/noun, verb
guarantee is spelled G-U-A-R-A-N-T-E-E, 3 syllables: guar·an·tee. The wrong spelling people search most is guarentee: about 900 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Guarantee is a noun meaning “Anything that assures a certain outcome”. The plural of guarantee is guarantees.
How many letters and syllables are in guarantee?
| Letters | 9: G-U-A-R-A-N-T-E-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: guar·an·tee |
| In writing | 28 times per million words; the 3,364th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 6; the most searched, guarentee, about 900 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell guarantee?
Guarantee is spelled G-U-A-R-A-N-T-E-E. 6 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for guarantee in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is guarantee?
Guarantee appears 28 times per million words in written English, the 3,364th 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).
How do you pronounce guarantee?
- UK /ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/
- US /ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/
- /ˌɡɛɹ.ənˈtiː/
Guarantee has 3 syllables, split guar·an·tee in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-guarantee.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with guarantee
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: guaranty.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with guarantee?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as guarantee from its last stressed vowel (/i/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of guarantee
- guarantees plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- guaranteeing participle, present
- guaranteed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does guarantee mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Anything that assures a certain outcome.
Can you give me a guarantee that he will be fit for the match?
- 2
A legal assurance of something, e.g. a security for the fulfillment of an obligation.
- 3
A written declaration that a certain product will be fit for a purpose and work correctly; a warranty.
The cooker comes with a five-year guarantee.
- 4
The person to whom a guarantee is made.
- 5
colloquialA person who gives such a guarantee; a guarantor.
verb
- 1
To give an assurance that something will be done right.
- 2
To assume or take responsibility for a debt or other obligation.
- 3
To make something certain.
The long sunny days guarantee a good crop.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Guarantee in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | garantie , garant , garantir , se porter garant |
| German | Garantie , Garant , garantieren, versichern |
| Portuguese | garantia , garantidor , garantir , fiar |
| Spanish | garantía, caución , garante , garantizar, garantir, avalar |
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 guarantee come from?
From Old French guarantie (perhaps via a later Spanish garante), from the verb guarantir (“to protect, assure, vouch for”), ultimately from Old Frankish *warjand, *warand (“a warrant”), or from guaranty. Doublet of guaranty and warranty.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).