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webmail

noun

webmail is spelled W-E-B-M-A-I-L: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, webmail means “A service for sending, receiving, and/or storing email, usually on a remote web server, in such a way that it is accessible through a web browser” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of webmail is webmails.

How many letters and syllables are in webmail?

Letters7: W-E-B-M-A-I-L
In writingabout once in every 11 million words; the 101,613th 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 webmail?

Webmail appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th 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 webmail?

  • US

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

Forms of webmail

  • webmails plural

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

What does webmail mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A service for sending, receiving, and/or storing email, usually on a remote web server, in such a way that it is accessible through a web browser.

    Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail are well-known webmail services.

  2. 2

    The email thus stored.

    I'm going to check my webmail.

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

Where does webmail come from?

From web + mail.

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

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