antimalware
adjective
antimalware is an adjective meaning “Designed or intended to combat or eliminate malware on a computer system” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-M-A-L-W-A-R-E, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does antimalware mean?
adjective
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Designed or intended to combat or eliminate malware on a computer system.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antimalware?
Antimalware appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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).
Antimalware in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense designed or intended to combat or eliminate malware on a computer system:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | antimalware |
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 antimalware come from?
From anti- + malware.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).