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cyberwarfare

noun

cyberwarfare is spelled C-Y-B-E-R-W-A-R-F-A-R-E: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 92,628th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cyberwarfare means “Warfare taking place on the Internet, as by disrupting critical online services” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in cyberwarfare?

Letters12: C-Y-B-E-R-W-A-R-F-A-R-E
In writingabout once in every 10 million words; the 92,628th 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 cyberwarfare?

Cyberwarfare appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 92,628th 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).

How do you pronounce cyberwarfare?

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

What does cyberwarfare mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Warfare taking place on the Internet, as by disrupting critical online services.

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

Cyberwarfare in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense warfare taking place on the Internet:

LanguageWords
Frenchguerre informatique, cyberguerre
GermanCyberkrieg
Portugueseguerra cibernética, ciberguerra
Spanishguerra informática, ciberguerra

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 cyberwarfare come from?

From cyber- + warfare.

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

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