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screencap

noun, verb

screencap is spelled S-C-R-E-E-N-C-A-P: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 62,179th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, screencap means “A screenshot” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of screencap is screencaps.

How many letters and syllables are in screencap?

Letters9: S-C-R-E-E-N-C-A-P
In writingabout once in every 4 million words; the 62,179th 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 screencap?

Screencap appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 62,179th 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 screencap

  • screencaps plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • screencapping participle, present
  • screencapped participle, past

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

What does screencap mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    informalA screenshot.

verb

  1. 1

    informalTo take a screenshot.

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

Where does screencap come from?

Clipping of screen capture.

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

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