Tenant vs tenet
A tenant is a person who rents a home or other place from its owner. A tenet is a belief or rule that a person or group holds to be true.
Tenant ends in -nt, like rent. A tenant rents a place.
tenant noun
A person who rents a home or other place from its owner.
- The tenant complained to the landlord about the broken heating.
- Each tenant in the building has a parking space.
tenet noun
A belief or rule that a person or group holds to be completely true.
- A central tenet of the party is that taxes should remain low.
- Honesty is a basic tenet of her teaching.
Watch out
- When you talk about beliefs or principles, as in a central tenet or a basic tenet, the word is always tenet, never tenant.A central tenet of the party is that taxes should remain low.
- Tenant can also be a verb that means to live in or occupy a place.The family has tenanted the estate's gatehouse since the war.
- In shared software, a tenant is one of several customers using the same system. It is still spelled tenant.The cloud provider isolates each tenant so that one customer cannot access another's records.
Test yourself
The landlord asked the new blank to sign a one-year lease.
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tenant. This is a person who rents the place from its owner.
Kindness to strangers is a key blank of their faith.
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tenet. This is a belief the group holds to be true.
The blank upstairs is always late with the rent.
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tenant. A person who pays rent is a tenant.
Free speech is one blank the group will never give up.
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tenet. This is a principle the group holds firmly.