antispyware
adjective
antispyware is an adjective meaning “Designed or intended to combat or eliminate spyware on a computer system” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-S-P-Y-W-A-R-E, and it appears about once in every 65 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does antispyware mean?
adjective
- 1
Designed or intended to combat or eliminate spyware on a computer system
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce antispyware?
- 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-antispyware.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of antispyware
- anti-spyware
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antispyware?
Antispyware appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th 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).
Antispyware in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense designed or intended to combat or eliminate spyware on a computer system:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | anti-spyware |
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 antispyware come from?
From anti- + spyware.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).