warrant
war·rant/ˈwɔɹənt/noun, verb
warrant is spelled W-A-R-R-A-N-T, 2 syllables: war·rant. The wrong spelling people search most is warrent: about 640 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Warrant is a noun meaning “Authorization or certification; a sanction, as given by a superior”. The plural of warrant is warrants.
How many letters and syllables are in warrant?
| Letters | 7: W-A-R-R-A-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: war·rant |
| In writing | 17 times per million words; the 4,752nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, warrent, about 640 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 warrant?
Warrant is spelled W-A-R-R-A-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for warrant 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 warrant?
Warrant appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,752nd 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 warrant?
- UK /ˈwɒɹənt/
- US /ˈwɔɹənt/
- /ˈwɑɹənt/
Warrant has 2 syllables, split war·rant in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-warrant.ogg, En-au-warrant.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with warrant?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as warrant from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹənt/):
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 warrant
- warrants plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- warraunt
- warranting participle, present
- warranted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does warrant mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Authorization or certification; a sanction, as given by a superior.
- 2
Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof.
a warrant of authenticity; a warrant for success
- 3
An order that serves as authorization; especially a voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.
- 4
An option, usually issued together with another security and with a term at issue greater than a year, to buy other securities of the issuer.
- 5
A judicial writ authorizing an officer to make a search, seizure, or arrest, or to execute a judgment.
an arrest warrant issued by the court
- 6
Ellipsis of warrant officer.
- 7
A certificate of appointment given to a warrant officer.
- 8
A document certifying that a motor vehicle meets certain standards of mechanical soundness and safety; a warrant of fitness.
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo protect, keep safe (from danger).
- 2
obsoleteTo give (someone) an assurance or guarantee (of something); also, with a double object: to guarantee (someone something).
- 3
To guarantee (something) to be (of a specified quality, value, etc.).
- 4
To guarantee as being true; (colloquial) to believe strongly.
That tree is going to fall, I’ll warrant.
- 5
To authorize; to give (someone) sanction or warrant (to do something).
I am warranted to search these premises fully.
- 6
To justify; to give grounds for.
Circumstances arose that warranted the use of lethal force.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate warrant?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of warrant: W, wrnt, wrnt..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Warrant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Beschützer , Vollmacht, Befugnis , Nachweis, Garantie, Garantieerklärung |
| French | mandat , garantie , mandat de conformité |
| Portuguese | autorização , garantia , mandado , garantir |
| Spanish | garantía , orden, orden judicial, mandamiento judicial, orden de allanamiento , cédula |
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 warrant come from?
The noun is derived from Middle English warant (“protector; guard, shield, protection”), from Anglo-Norman warrant, Old Northern French warant, warand, a variant of Old French guarant, garant, garand (“assurance, guarantee; authorization, permission; protector; protection, safety”) (modern French garant), from Frankish *warand, present participle of *warjan (“to fend off; to stop, thwart”). The word is cognate with Old High German werento (“guarantor”). The verb is derived from Middle English warrant, waranten (“to give protection; to protect, shield; to assure, pledge, promise; to guarantee”)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).