surety

Other forms of surety

plural

sureties·

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 surety

What does surety mean?

surety means "something clearly established". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in surety?

surety has 3 syllables: sur-e-ty. The stress falls on "sur". In IPA it is /ˈʃʊɹəti/.

What is another word for surety?

Close synonyms include security, hostage, guarantor, warrantor, warranter. 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 surety a common word?

surety 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.