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vapourware

Syllables: va·pour·ware

vapourware is the alternative spelling of vaporware.

Meaning of vaporware

Noun

vaporware (uncountable)

  1. An advertised product, often computer software, the launch of which has not happened yet and might not ever happen.
    • Near-synonym: dreamware
    Synonyms:
    dreamware

Origin of vapourware

From vapour + -ware.

Questions about vapourware

What is vapourware the alternative spelling of?
Vapourware is the alternative spelling of vaporware.

Words near vapourware in the dictionary

  1. vapourlike
  2. vapourous
  3. vapourously
  4. vapourousness
  5. vapours
  6. vapourware
  7. vapourwave
  8. vapoury
  9. vapreotide
  10. vaps
  11. vaptan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vapourware (page history and authors); vaporware (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.

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