junk e-mail

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   unwanted e-mail (usually of a commercial nature sent out in bulk)

   Synonymsspam

   Broaderelectronic mail

Questions about junk e-mail

What does junk e-mail mean?

junk e-mail means "unwanted e-mail (usually of a commercial nature sent out in bulk)".

What is another word for junk e-mail?

Close synonyms include spam. 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 junk e-mail a common word?

junk e-mail 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.