guaranty

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsguarantee

   Broadercollateral

Other forms of guaranty

plural

guaranties·

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 guaranty

What does guaranty mean?

guaranty means "a collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults".

How many syllables are in guaranty?

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

What is another word for guaranty?

Close synonyms include guarantee. 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 guaranty a common word?

guaranty is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 guaranty?

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