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anticommunism

UK /æntɪˈkɒmjʊnɪzəm/noun

anticommunism is a noun meaning “Opposition to communism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-C-O-M-M-U-N-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of anticommunism is anticommunisms.

What does anticommunism mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Opposition to communism.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce anticommunism?

  • UK /æntɪˈkɒmjʊnɪzəm/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of anticommunism

  • anticommunisms plural
  • anti-communism

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is anticommunism?

Anticommunism appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Anticommunism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense against communism:

LanguageWords
Frenchanticommunisme
GermanAntikommunismus
Portugueseanticomunismo
Spanishanticomunismo

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.