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Plural of botnet

regular plural

The plural of botnet is botnets.

Forms of botnet

Singularbotnet /ˈbɒtnɛt/
Pluralbotnets
Countablecountable

Botnets in a sentence

  • In response, senders started using botnets (networks of otherwise innocent computers).2010 November 20, “Long life spam”, in The Economist
  • As noted above, multiple threat actor groups are actively working to expand and improve the DDoS attack capabilities of Mirai-variant botnets.2016 October 26, Roland Dobbins, Steinthor Bjarnason, “Mirai IoT Botnet Description and DDoS Attack Mitigation”, in NETSCOUT, archived…. From the entry threat actor

Meaning of botnet

  1. noun A collection of compromised computers that is gradually built up and then unleashed as a DDOS attack or used to send very large quantities of spam.
  2. noun Spyware.

Full definition of botnet

Questions about the plural of botnet

What is the plural of botnet?
The plural of botnet is botnets.
Is botnet countable?
Botnet is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: botnet (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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