webroot
noun
webroot is a noun meaning “The topmost directory in which the files making up a web site are located on a web server” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-E-B-R-O-O-T, and it appears about once in every 33 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of webroot is webroots.
What does webroot mean?
noun
- 1
The topmost directory in which the files making up a web site are located on a web server.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of webroot
- webroots plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is webroot?
Webroot appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th 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 webroot come from?
From Web + root.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).