writedown
noun
writedown is a noun meaning “An adjustment; a precise amount adjusted by an act of writing down or entering an asset and its value; a reduction of an asset, written down or…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-R-I-T-E-D-O-W-N and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 33 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of writedown is writedowns.
What does writedown mean?
noun
- 1
An adjustment; a precise amount adjusted by an act of writing down or entering an asset and its value; a reduction of an asset, written down or otherwise recorded as such.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce writedown?
Writedown has 2 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).
Forms of writedown
- writedowns plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is writedown?
Writedown appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th 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).
Writedown in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense adjustment; precise amount adjusted by an act of writing down an asset:
| Language | Words |
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| German | Abschreibung |
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 writedown come from?
Deverbal from write down.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).