Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

background investigation

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.46 in modern English

Syllables
back-ground in-ves-ti-ga-tion
IPA
37
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
6
Syllables
15
Unique Chars

Meaning

Inflected Forms

Questions

What does background investigation mean?
A background check.

How to pronounce background investigation

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