quittance

Questions about quittance

What does quittance mean?

quittance means "a document or receipt certifying release from an obligation or debt". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quittance?

quittance has 2 syllables: quit-tance. The stress falls on "quit".

What is another word for quittance?

Close synonyms include repayment. 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 quittance a common word?

quittance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.