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cybercrime

noun

cybercrime is spelled C-Y-B-E-R-C-R-I-M-E: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,832nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cybercrime means “Crime committed using computer networks” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cybercrime is cybercrimes.

How many letters and syllables are in cybercrime?

Letters10: C-Y-B-E-R-C-R-I-M-E
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 39,832nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is cybercrime?

Cybercrime appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,832nd 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).

How do you pronounce cybercrime?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-cybercrime.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of cybercrime

  • cybercrimes plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does cybercrime mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Crime committed using computer networks.

  2. 2

    An individual crime of this kind.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Cybercrime in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcybercriminalité, e-criminalité (crime committed using computer networks), cybercrime (individual crime of this kind)
GermanCyberkriminalität (crime committed using computer networks), Cyberverbrechen (individual crime of this kind)
Portuguesecibercrime (crime committed using computer networks)

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 cybercrime come from?

From cyber- + crime.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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