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preapproval

noun

preapproval is spelled P-R-E-A-P-P-R-O-V-A-L: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, preapproval means “approval in advance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of preapproval is preapprovals.

How many letters and syllables are in preapproval?

Letters11: P-R-E-A-P-P-R-O-V-A-L
In writingabout once in every 34 million words; the 178,202nd 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 preapproval?

Preapproval appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd 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 preapproval

  • preapprovals plural

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

What does preapproval mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    approval in advance

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

Where does preapproval come from?

From pre- + approval.

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

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