reinvestigate
verb
reinvestigate is a verb meaning “To investigate again” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-I-N-V-E-S-T-I-G-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does reinvestigate mean?
verb
- 1
To investigate again
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of reinvestigate
- reinvestigates present, singular, he/she/it
- reinvestigating participle, present
- reinvestigated participle, past
- re-investigate
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is reinvestigate?
Reinvestigate appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th 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).
Where does reinvestigate come from?
From re- + investigate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).