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Spell Bee Word: Tenant


What does tenant mean?

Word: Tenant

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Tenant means a person who pays rent to live in a house or flat, or to use land or a shop, that belongs to someone else.

Synonyms: renter, occupant

Antonyms: owner, landlord

How do you spell tenant?

Syllables: ten - ant

Tricky part: Tenant ends in -ant, not -ent, so tenent is the usual mistake.

Watch out for: tenent, tenint

Memory tip: Picture an ant paying rent for a tiny room: every tenant has an ant at the end.

Tenant in a sentence

Example 1: The new tenant moved into the flat upstairs on Sunday.

Example 2: Our landlord fixed the leaking tap for all the tenants.

Example 3: The shop is owned by Mr Rao, but the tenant runs a bakery there.

Fun Fact

Tenant comes through French from the Latin word tenere, to hold. A tenant holds a place for a time without owning it.

Practise the CREST Way

Jumble Tumble

Choose the correct sequence of the jumbled letters to form a meaningful word:

aettnn 123456

a) 625134
b) 325164
c) 352164
d) 125364

Show answer

b) 325164. The word starts with the t and e at places 3 and 2, and the a from place 1 sits in the middle.

Word Champ

Which of the words cannot be made using the letters in the given word?

tenant

a) tent
b) eaten
c) neat
d) net

Show answer

b) eaten. Tenant gives one e, and eaten calls for two.

Spellacadabra

From which option does a letter need to be removed to make a meaningful word?

a) giant
b) tennant
c) parent
d) student

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b) tennant. Tenant has one n in the middle; drop the extra n.

Sound Check

Which of the following words rhymes with the given word?

tenant

a) tendon
b) pennant
c) talent
d) tennis

Show answer

b) pennant. Say tenant and pennant aloud: only the first sound is different.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which word is closest in meaning to tenant?

a) buyer
b) painter
c) builder
d) lodger

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d) lodger

2. Mrs Das owns a flat, and Mr Khan pays her rent to live in it. Who is the tenant?

a) Mrs Das
b) the postman
c) Mr Khan
d) the plumber

Show answer

c) Mr Khan

Associated Words

heisteventfulaboriginalposthumouslybicentennial
patronisenimblenougatnoviceconstituent

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