cyberpunk

Other forms of cyberpunk

plural

cyberpunks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cyberpunk

What does cyberpunk mean?

cyberpunk means "a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cyberpunk?

cyberpunk has 3 syllables: cy-ber-punk. The stress falls on "cy".

What is another word for cyberpunk?

Close synonyms include cyber-terrorist. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cyberpunk a common word?

cyberpunk is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.