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malinvestment

noun

malinvestment is spelled M-A-L-I-N-V-E-S-T-M-E-N-T: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, malinvestment means “An incorrect or unwise investment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of malinvestment is malinvestments.

How many letters and syllables are in malinvestment?

Letters13: M-A-L-I-N-V-E-S-T-M-E-N-T
In writingabout once in every 91 million words; the 305,310th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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

How common is malinvestment?

Malinvestment appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th 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).

Forms of malinvestment

  • malinvestments plural

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

What does malinvestment mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An incorrect or unwise investment.

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

Where does malinvestment come from?

From mal- + investment.

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

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