Word.ws English Dictionary

pre-release

pre-release is the alternative spelling of prerelease.

Meaning of prerelease

Adjective

prerelease (not comparable)

  1. Before release.
    • They were aided by beta testers, ordinary people outside the company who were willing to try prerelease software and report bugs […]2004, William Poundstone, How Would You Move Mount Fuji?

See all 4 meanings of prerelease

Questions about pre-release

What is pre-release the alternative spelling of?
Pre-release is the alternative spelling of prerelease.

Words near pre-release in the dictionary

  1. Pre-Raphaelitism
  2. pre-record
  3. pre-recorded
  4. pre-recording
  5. pre-records
  6. pre-release
  7. pre-render
  8. pre-rendered
  9. pre-rendering
  10. pre-renders
  11. pre-resurrection

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-release (page history and authors); prerelease (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pre-release.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pre-release. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.