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rent

/ˈɹɛnt/noun, verb, adjective

rent is spelled R-E-N-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 38 times per million words in written English, the 2,581st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, rent means “A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to lease a property” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of rent is rents.

How many letters and syllables are in rent?

Letters4: R-E-N-T
Syllables1
In writing38 times per million words; the 2,581st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is rent?

Rent appears 38 times per million words in written English, the 2,581st 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 rent?

  • /ˈɹɛnt/
  • /ˈɹɪ̟nt/

Rent has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-rent.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Pvanp7-rent.wav, En-us-rent.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with rent?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as rent.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: tern, tren.

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 rent

  • rents plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • renting participle, present
  • rented participle, past
  • more rent comparative
  • most rent superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does rent mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to lease a property.

    I am asking £300 a week rent.

  2. 2

    A similar payment for the use of a product, equipment or a service.

  3. 3

    A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.

    A New York city taxicab license earns more than $10,000 a year in rent.

  4. 4

    An object for which rent is charged or paid.

  5. 5

    obsoleteIncome; revenue.

  6. 6

    An amount of virtual currency paid by a player to preserve their character, inventory, etc. between gameplay sessions in a multi-user dungeon.

  7. 7

    A tear or rip in some surface.

  8. 8

    A division or schism.

verb

  1. 1

    To take a lease of premises in exchange for rent.

    I rented a house from my friend's parents for a year.

  2. 2

    informalTo grant a lease in return for rent.

    We rented our house to our son's friend for a year.

  3. 3

    To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.

  4. 4

    informalTo be leased or let for rent.

    The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.

  5. 5

    simple past and past participle of rend (a form of rend)

adjective

  1. 1

    That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Rent in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchloyer, loyage (payment made by a tenant), location (payment made for the use of equipment or a…), louer (to occupy premises in exchange for rent), déchirure (tear or rip)
GermanMiete, Mietzins (payment made by a tenant), mieten (to occupy premises in exchange for rent), Riss (tear or rip), vermieten (to grant occupation in return for rent)
Portugueserenda, aluguel (payment made by a tenant), alugar (to occupy premises in exchange for rent)
Spanishrenta, alquiler, arriendo (payment made by a tenant), alquilar, arrendar, rentar (to occupy premises in exchange for rent)

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 rent come from?

From Middle English rent, rente, from Old French rente, from Early Medieval Latin rendita, from Late Latin rendere, from Latin reddere.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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