antitheft
adjective
antitheft is an adjective meaning “Against or preventing from being stolen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-T-H-E-F-T and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does antitheft mean?
adjective
- 1
Against or preventing from being stolen.
The antitheft device meant the thief could not leave the store.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce antitheft?
Antitheft 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 antitheft
- anti-theft
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antitheft?
Antitheft appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st 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).
Antitheft in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense preventing from being stolen:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | antivol, anti-vol |
| German | diebstahlsicher, einbruchsicher |
| Portuguese | antifurto, antirroubo |
| Spanish | antirrobo, antiatraco |
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 antitheft come from?
From anti- + theft.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).