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webcomic

noun

webcomic is spelled W-E-B-C-O-M-I-C: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 42,145th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, webcomic means “An online comic, especially one first published on the Internet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of webcomic is webcomics.

How many letters and syllables are in webcomic?

Letters8: W-E-B-C-O-M-I-C
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 42,145th 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 webcomic?

Webcomic appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 42,145th 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 webcomic

  • webcomics plural

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

What does webcomic mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An online comic, especially one first published on the Internet.

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

Webcomic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense first comic published on the Internet:

LanguageWords
Spanishwebcómic

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 webcomic come from?

From Web + comic. The word is first attested 2000, but websites titled "WebComics" existed previously (as early as 1995).

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

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