investigation

Other forms of investigation

plural

investigations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about investigation

What does investigation mean?

investigation means "an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in investigation?

investigation has 5 syllables: in-ves-ti-ga-tion. The stress falls on "ga". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˌvɛstəˈɡeɪʃən/.

What is another word for investigation?

Close synonyms include probe, investigating. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is investigation a common word?

investigation is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with investigation?

21 words rhyme with investigation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.