Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

webtoon

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.13 in modern English

Syllables: webtoon
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An animated cartoon published on the World Wide Web.

noun

A kind of Korean comic that is published digitally for reading on a smartphone or computer.

Example Sentences

"Have a webtoon! Elf Life: http://www.elflife.com"
"As Flash Webtoons and animated shorts have become more and more popular, a spate of tools have cropped up to facilitate their creation."
"Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi used Flash animation to bring cartoons (sometimes called online cartoons or webtoons) to the Internet."
"More and more cartoons are made using special techniques with a lot of help from computers. Some people are making cartoons for the internet. These are called webtoons. You could make a webtoon, too."
"When it comes to Flash animated cartoons, also called webtoons, the first noted use was in 1999 when Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi set out to bring cartoons to the Web. Soon after, webtoons began popping up everywhere."
"We can read a webtoon using an application on our phone."

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.

Origin

Source language: Korean

Word Breakdown

Root: 웹툰

Inflected Forms

webtoons (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

webcomic

Questions

What does webtoon mean?: An animated cartoon published on the World Wide Web.
Where does webtoon come from?: It is traced to Korean.

How to pronounce webtoon

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