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Spell Bee Word: Rent


What does rent mean?

Word: Rent

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Rent means the money you pay every month or week to the owner of a house, flat or shop so that you can use it. As a verb, to rent means to pay for using something that belongs to someone else.

How do you spell rent?

Syllables: rent

Tricky part: The vowel is a short e. With an a in its place you get rant, a different word that means to talk loudly for a long time about something that annoys you.

Watch out for: rint, rentt

Memory tip: Every month the rent is due: let the e of every remind you which vowel it takes.

Rent in a sentence

Example 1: My uncle pays the rent for his flat in London on the first of every month.

Example 2: My cousins rent a small house near the beach in Goa.

Example 3: The rent for the shop went up this year.

Fun Fact

In British English you usually rent a flat to live in for a long time, but you hire a car or a bike for a day or two.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

rennt

a) t
b) n
c) r
d) e

Show answer

b) n. This short word has one of each letter, so one of the two matching letters has to go.

Word Makeup

Choose the suffix that completes the word:

rent____

a) al
b) el
c) le
d) ul

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a) al. The word rental ends the same way as arrival and refusal.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) rent
b) tenent
c) property
d) balcony

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b) tenent. A tenant, the person who pays to live in a home, has an a after the n.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Sharmas pay rent every month for their flat. Which of these must be true?

a) It costs them nothing
b) They built it themselves
c) Someone else owns it
d) They are selling it

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c) Someone else owns it

2. The Sharmas moved to a flat where the rent is lower. What is now true?

a) They pay nothing at all
b) They pay less each month
c) They own the new flat
d) Their flat is on a lower floor

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b) They pay less each month

Associated Words

More Class 4 Summer Spell Bee words starting with re: reject, renew, rectify, represent, refer, relax

More words from this list

sturdy, vixen, attentive, considerable, dutiful, gorge, laboratory, overhear

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