reinvestigation
noun
reinvestigation is a noun meaning “An act or process of reinvestigating: a repeat of an earlier investigation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-I-N-V-E-S-T-I-G-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of reinvestigation is reinvestigations.
What does reinvestigation mean?
noun
- 1
An act or process of reinvestigating: a repeat of an earlier investigation
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce reinvestigation?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-reinvestigation.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of reinvestigation
- reinvestigations plural
- re-investigation
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is reinvestigation?
Reinvestigation appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th 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 reinvestigation come from?
From re- + investigation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).