insurance
in·sur·ance/ɪnˈʃʊɹ.əns/noun
insurance is spelled I-N-S-U-R-A-N-C-E, 3 syllables: in·sur·ance. The wrong spelling people search most is insurence: about 1,030 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 357 of all searches for the word. Insurance is a noun meaning “A means of indemnity against a future occurrence of an uncertain event”. The plural of insurance is insurances.
How many letters and syllables are in insurance?
| Letters | 9: I-N-S-U-R-A-N-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: in·sur·ance |
| In writing | 87 times per million words; the 1,223rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, insurence, about 1,030 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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 insurance?
Insurance is spelled I-N-S-U-R-A-N-C-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 363 of the searches for insurance 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 insurance?
Insurance appears 87 times per million words in written English, the 1,223rd 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 insurance?
- /ɪnˈʃɔː.ɹəns/
- /ɪnˈʃʊə.ɹəns/
- US /ɪnˈʃʊɹ.əns/
Insurance has 3 syllables, split in·sur·ance in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-insurance.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Grendelkhan-insurance.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-insurance.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with insurance?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as insurance from its last stressed vowel (/ʊɹəns/):
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 insurance
- insurances plural
- insuraunce
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does insurance mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A means of indemnity against a future occurrence of an uncertain event.
The car was totalled, but fortunately I had insurance.
- 2
The business of providing insurance.
After five years in banking, I switched to insurance.
- 3
Any attempt to forestall an unfavorable event.
The sky was clear, but I took my umbrella for insurance.
- 4
A bet made after the deal, which pays off if the dealer has blackjack.
I only take insurance if the count is right.
- 5
An insurance policy.
- 6
A company providing insurance policies; an insurer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate insurance?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of insurance: Ins., ins., insur..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Insurance in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | assurance |
| German | Versicherung |
| Portuguese | seguro |
| Spanish | seguro, aseguración , aseguramiento |
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 insurance come from?
From the older form ensurance, see also assurance. By surface analysis, insure + -ance.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).