warranty
/ˈwoɹ.ən.ti/noun, verb
warranty is spelled W-A-R-R-A-N-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is warrenty: about 2,550 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 15 of all searches for the word. Warranty is a noun meaning “A guarantee that a certain outcome or obligation will be fulfilled; security”. The plural of warranty is warranties.
How many letters and syllables are in warranty?
| Letters | 8: W-A-R-R-A-N-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.4 times per million words; the 10,680th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, warrenty, about 2,550 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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).
How do you spell warranty?
Warranty is spelled W-A-R-R-A-N-T-Y. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for warranty 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 warranty?
Warranty appears 5.4 times per million words in written English, the 10,680th 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 warranty?
- UK /ˈwɒɹ.ən.ti/
- US /ˈwoɹ.ən.ti/
- /ˈwɑɹ.ən.ti/
Warranty has 3 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-warranty.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-warranty.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of warranty
- warranties plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- warrantying participle, present
- warrantied participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does warranty mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A guarantee that a certain outcome or obligation will be fulfilled; security.
- 2
obsoleteA legal agreement that was a real covenant and ran with the land: The grantor of a piece of real estate held in freehold, and their heirs, were required to officially guarantee their claim and plead their case for the title. If evicted by someone with a superior claim (paramount title), they were also required to hand over other real estate of equal value in recompense. It has now been replaced by
- 3
obsoleteA covenant, also called the covenant of warranty, whereby the grantor assures the grantee that he or she will not be subject to the claims of someone with a paramount title, thereby guaranteeing the status of the title that is being conveyed.
- 4
A legal agreement, either written or oral (an expressed warranty) or implied through the actions of the buyer and seller (an implied warranty), which states that the goods or property in question will be in exactly the same state as promised, such as in a sale of an item or piece of real estate.
- 5
A written guarantee, usually over a fixed period, provided to someone who buys a product or item, which states that certain repairs and/or replacement parts will be provided free of charge in case of damage or a defect.
I took out an extended warranty on my television for five years at a cost of $100.
- 6
A stipulation of an insurance policy made by an insuree, guaranteeing that the facts of the policy are true and the insurance risk is as stated, which if not fulfilled renders the policy void.
- 7
rareJustification or mandate to do something, especially in terms of one’s personal conduct; warrant.
verb
- 1
To warrant; to guarantee.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Warranty in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | garantía, seguro , postventa , garantir, reclamar la garantía, pedir un reemplazo por garantía |
| French | garantie |
| German | Garantie |
| Portuguese | garantia |
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 warranty come from?
From Middle English warantye, warantie, from Anglo-Norman warrantie, an Old Northern French variant of Old French guarantie (Modern French garantie). Doublet of guarantee and guaranty. More at warrant.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).