investissement

\ɛ̃.vɛs.tis.mɑ̃\

/\ɛ̃.vɛs.tis.mɑ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“investissement” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,231. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,231
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
20
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’investir une place, une ville, etc.

Corpus desk

Index FR-investissement · investissement · French

investissement · rank #2,231 · 20 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,231
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 20 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH inutile

Nearest frequency peer: inutile (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « investissement »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « investissement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

investissement vs investissent
86% similar
investissement vs investissements
93% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for investissement
PropertyValue
Headwordinvestissement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.vɛs.tis.mɑ̃\
Letters14
Frequency rank#2,231
Misspellings tracked20
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « investissement »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.investissementse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « inutile » (#2,230), « maintenir » (#2,232), « initiative » (#2,229). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « investissement » est au #2,231. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 20 spelling variants around investissement (IPA \ɛ̃.vɛs.tis.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,231 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for investissement, with forms such as "inevstissement", "innvestissement", and "invesitssement". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "investissent", "investissements", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is investissement, spelled I-N-V-E-S-T-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’investir une place, une ville, etc.
  2. 2
    Placement de capitaux dans une activité économique.
  3. 3
    Fait de s'investir personnellement dans une activité, un projet.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how investissement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La bataille s’est livrée avant qu'il y arrivât. Il a échappé au désastre et il s’est replié sur Paris, où il est rentré, trois jours avant que l’investissement fût complet.
  2. « Le premier jour de l’investissement, je montai chez eux — je me souviens — très ému, avec cette angoisse au cœur que nous donnaient à tous les portes de Paris fermées, la bataille sous les murs, nos banlieues devenues frontières.

This word in other languages

investment(English)inversión(Español)Investition(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • inevstissement
  • innvestissement
  • invesitssement
  • invesstissement
  • investisement
  • investisesment
  • investisseemnt
  • investissemennt
  • investissementt
  • investissemetn
  • investissemment
  • investissemnet
  • investissmeent
  • investsisement
  • investtissement
  • invetsissement
  • invsetissement
  • invvestissement
  • ivnestissement
  • nivestissement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of investissement - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

inevstissement2innvestissement1invesitssement2invesstissement1investisement1investisesment2investisseemnt2investissemennt1
Edit distance from "investissement"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "investissement"?
"investissement" is spelled I-N-V-E-S-T-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.vɛs.tis.mɑ̃\.
What does "investissement" mean?
As a noun, "investissement" means: Action d’investir une place, une ville, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "investissement"?
"investissement" is commonly confused with "investissent", "investissements". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "investissement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "investissement" is \ɛ̃.vɛs.tis.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "investissement" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "investissement", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

fonctionnement#2,226professionnels#2,240établissements#2,209reconnaissance#2,297

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).

présidentielle20 variantsreprésentant20 variantscontrairement20 variantspropriétaires20 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list