# webtoon

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #81,971

## Definitions
1. An animated cartoon published on the World Wide Web.
2. A kind of Korean comic that is published digitally for reading on a smartphone or computer.

## Etymology
From Web + toon, dating from at least 2001 (see citations). For Korean comics, likely a re-borrowing of Korean 웹툰 (weptun), itself from the original sense.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/webtoon