appraisal
/əˈpɹeɪzəl/noun
appraisal is a noun meaning “The act or process of developing an opinion of value” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-P-P-R-A-I-S-A-L and has 3 syllables, and it appears 2.7 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of appraisal is appraisals.
What does appraisal mean?
noun
- 1
The act or process of developing an opinion of value.
- 2
A judgment or assessment of the value of something, especially a formal one.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce appraisal?
- /əˈpɹeɪzəl/
Appraisal has 3 syllables (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). Recordings: En-us-appraisal.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of appraisal
- appraisals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is appraisal?
Appraisal appears 2.7 times per million words in written English, the 16,455th 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).
Appraisal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense judgement:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | estimation, jugement, évaluation |
| German | Einschätzung, Taxierung |
| Portuguese | avaliação |
| Spanish | justipreciación, aforamiento |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does appraisal come from?
From appraise + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).