antispam
adjective
antispam is an adjective meaning “Countering spam (unwanted electronic mail)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-S-P-A-M, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does antispam mean?
adjective
- 1
Countering spam (unwanted electronic mail).
- 2
Opposed to spam.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce antispam?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-antispam.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is antispam?
Antispam appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd 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).
Antispam in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense countering spam (unwanted electronic mail):
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 antispam come from?
From anti- + spam.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).