How to spell investment

hear itin·vest·ment/ɪn'vɛstmənt/nounLong vowels

What it means: Money put into something expecting a profit.

In a sentence: My piggy bank is an investment because it helps me save money.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as invesment or investmant.

Same family: invest, investor, investing, reinvestment. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "investment" comes from the Latin root "vestire," meaning "to clothe" or "to dress." In early use, it referred to being "clothed" with power or authority, and later came to mean putting money into something and "covering" it with capital in hopes of profit.

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