guarantee

1. 1.

   a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications

   Synonymswarrantwarranteewarranty

   Broaderassurance

   Narrowersecuritydepositstock warrant
2. 2.

   an unconditional commitment that something will happen or that something is true

   “there is no guarantee that they are not lying”

   Broaderassurance

   Narrowersafety netfull faith and credit
3. 3.

   a collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults

   Synonymsguaranty

   Broadercollateral

Other forms of guarantee

plural

guarantees·

past tense

guaranteed·

present participle

guaranteeing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about guarantee

What does guarantee mean?

guarantee means "give surety or assume responsibility". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in guarantee?

guarantee has 3 syllables: guar-an-tee. The stress falls on "tee". In IPA it is /ˌɡɛɹənˈti/.

What is another word for guarantee?

Close synonyms include vouch, ensure, insure, assure, secure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is guarantee a common word?

guarantee is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with guarantee?

66 words rhyme with guarantee. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.