cyberattack
"cyberattack" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cyberattack” is uncommon English (frequency #65,031 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,031
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An attack or intrusion by means of a computer network such as the Internet, often for the purpose of spying.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cyberattack |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #65,031 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cyberattack” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cyberattack is uncommon English at frequency #65,031 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An attack or intrusion by means of a computer network such as the Internet, often for the purpose of spying.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cyberattack, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From cyber- + attack. The correct English form is cyberattack, spelled C-Y-B-E-R-A-T-T-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1An attack or intrusion by means of a computer network such as the Internet, often for the purpose of spying.
Etymology
From cyber- + attack.
Antonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “cyberattack”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-Y-B-E-R-A-T-T-A-C-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.