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interweb

/ˈɪntəˌwɛb/noun

interweb is spelled I-N-T-E-R-W-E-B: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 91,522nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, interweb means “The Internet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of interweb is interwebs or interwebz.

How many letters and syllables are in interweb?

Letters8: I-N-T-E-R-W-E-B
In writingabout once in every 9 million words; the 91,522nd 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 interweb?

Interweb appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 91,522nd 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 interweb?

  • /ˈɪntəˌwɛb/
  • /ˈɪntɚˌwɛb/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-interweb.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of interweb

  • interwebs plural
  • interwebz plural
  • intarweb

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

What does interweb mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The Internet.

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

Where does interweb come from?

Blend of Internet + web (“World Wide Web”). The first use of this phrase is disputed.

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

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