Quarentine or quarantine?
Did you mean quarantine? Here's the right spelling and how to remember it.
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Correct spelling: quarantine. Misspelling: quarentine.
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Memory tip
Quar + an + tine, from Italian quaranta (forty days).
Why people write “quarentine”
The misspelling “quarentine” is only one letter off: it writes E where quarantine has A, an easy slip because in an unstressed syllable both vowels can sound like the same soft "uh".
Spell-checkers catch the mistake in a document, but not in a handwritten note, a text message or a word game. Writing the word out a few times while saying the tricky part aloud is the quickest way to make quarantine automatic.
Other misspellings of “quarantine”
People also write “quarrantine”. Here is where each one goes wrong.
“quarrantine”
Correct spelling: quarantine. Misspelling: quarrantine.
letters the misspelling gets wrong or leaves out letters that shouldn't be there
The misspelling “quarrantine” is only one letter off: it doubles the R, which quarantine spells with just one.
What does “quarantine” mean?
quarantine noun
- enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease
- isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease
quarantine verb
- place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons
“My dog was quarantined before he could live in England”
Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Full dictionary entry
“Quarantine” in a sentence
- The ship was held in quarantine.
- My dog was quarantined before he could live in England.
Is “quarantine” a playable word?
19 points in Scrabble · 22 in Words With Friends
- Scrabble (US)
- Scrabble (UK)
- Words With Friends
“quarentine” is not accepted in any of these games. See every word you can make from QUARANTINE.