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investment

/ɪnˈvɛstmənt/noun

investment is spelled I-N-V-E-S-T-M-E-N-T: 10 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 69 times per million words in written English, the 1,528th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, investment means “The act of investing, or state of being invested” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of investment is investments.

How many letters and syllables are in investment?

Letters10: I-N-V-E-S-T-M-E-N-T
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing69 times per million words; the 1,528th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is investment?

Investment appears 69 times per million words in written English, the 1,528th 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).

How do you pronounce investment?

  • /ɪnˈvɛstmənt/
  • /ɪnˈvɛsmənt/

Investment 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-investment.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of investment

  • investments plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does investment mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The act of investing, or state of being invested.

    Giving your children a good education is a wise long-term investment.

  2. 2

    A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use or appreciation.

  3. 3

    obsoleteA vestment.

  4. 4

    The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.

  5. 5

    A mixture of silica sand and plaster which, by surrounding a wax pattern, creates a negative mold of the form used for casting, among other metals, bronze.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate investment?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of investment: Inv..

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Investment in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Portugueseinvestimento (act of investing), investimentos, aposta (placement of capital in expectation of deriving…)
Spanishinversión (act of investing), insumo (placement of capital in expectation of deriving…), cerco (act of surrounding)
Frenchinvestissement, placement (placement of capital in expectation of deriving…)
GermanInvestition, Anlage (placement of capital in expectation of deriving…)

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 investment come from?

From invest + -ment.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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