Instamatic
noun
Instamatic is a noun meaning “A kind of inexpensive point-and-shoot camera” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-N-S-T-A-M-A-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 29 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Instamatic is Instamatics.
What does Instamatic mean?
noun
- 1
A kind of inexpensive point-and-shoot camera.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Instamatic
- Instamatics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Instamatic?
Instamatic appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th 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).
Where does Instamatic come from?
Trade name of the 1960s, from insta- + automatic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).