anticrime
adjective
anticrime is an adjective meaning “Opposed to or aimed at preventing or punishing crime” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-C-R-I-M-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 76 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does anticrime mean?
adjective
- 1
Opposed to or aimed at preventing or punishing crime
an anticrime program
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce anticrime?
Anticrime has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of anticrime
- anti-crime
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is anticrime?
Anticrime appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th 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).
Anticrime in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense opposed to or aimed at preventing or punishing crime:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | anticriminal, anticrime, anticriminalidade |
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.
Where does anticrime come from?
From anti- + crime.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).