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cybercriminal

noun, adjective

cybercriminal is spelled C-Y-B-E-R-C-R-I-M-I-N-A-L: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cybercriminal means “A perpetrator of cybercrime” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cybercriminal is cybercriminals.

How many letters and syllables are in cybercriminal?

Letters13: C-Y-B-E-R-C-R-I-M-I-N-A-L
In writingabout once in every 48 million words; the 214,628th 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 cybercriminal?

Cybercriminal appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th 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).

Forms of cybercriminal

  • cybercriminals plural

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

What does cybercriminal mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A perpetrator of cybercrime.

adjective

  1. 1

    Relating to cybercrime.

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

Cybercriminal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense perpetrator of cybercrime:

LanguageWords
Frenchcybercriminel

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 cybercriminal come from?

From cyber- + criminal.

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

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