1 | noun | the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation 2 | noun | the testing of an idea 3 | noun | a venture at something new or different 4 | verb | to conduct a test or investigation 5 | verb | try something new, as in order to gain experience (5 meanings)

iksp'eruhmuhnt (IPA: ɪkspˈɛrəmənt)

ex-per-i-ment (10 letters | 4 syllables)

1348 (High Middle ages) (677 years ago)

Old French | Latin

written: 3389th most common (1 in 34483 words) ( > 99% noun | 0% verb)

spoken: 3592nd most common (1 in 111111 words)

(includes some inflected forms)

experiments | experimented | experimenting

experimentation | try out

control experiment | Michelson-Morley experiment | testing | trial and error | pilot experiment | test | trial | trial run | tryout (total: 9)

research project | scientific research | enquiry | inquiry | research | venture | investigate | look into (total: 8)

(none among common words)

experimental | experimenter

(none among common words)

double-blind experiment | through an experiment

Mandarin Chinese: | 試驗 (noun) Hindi: | प्रयोग (noun) Arabic: | تَجرِبَة (noun) Spanish: | experimento (testing) French: | expérience (testing)

Experiment (Georgia, 3328 people)

Baseball's Great Experiment (Jules Tygiel)

The Philadelphia Experiment | The Harrad Experiment | The Experiment | Experiment in Terror | Experiment Perilous | Das Experiment (total: 6)

experiment.com | experiment.net | experiment.org | experiment.info | experiment.biz (total: 5)

It often has controls (based on all New York Times crossword puzzles 1994 to 2009)

21 (International English) | 21 (North American English)