reit
/ɹiːt/obsolete
reit is a noun meaning “Acronym of real estate investment trust, an investment device where the holding company uses the funds invested to hold real estate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-I-T and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of reit is reits.
What does reit mean?
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Acronym of real estate investment trust, an investment device where the holding company uses the funds invested to hold real estate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce reit?
- /ɹiːt/
Reit has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is reit?
Reit appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 44,767th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Words people confuse with reit
Sounds like: reet (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).