Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

spimming

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: spim-ming
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The sending of spim.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Another threat to the use of IM is a phenomenon known as spimming. Spimming is to IM as spam is to e-mail. Some aggressive spimmers learned how to take over one IMer's contact list — threatening a company's entire IM system!"

Etymology

From spim + -ing.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: spim

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does spimming mean?: The sending of spim.
Where does spimming come from?: From spim + -ing.

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