It turns out that link rot and content drift are endemic to the web, which is both unsurprising and shockingly risky for a library that has “billions of books and no central filing system.”
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Linkrot
//ˈlɪŋkˌɹɒt//
Synonyms for "linkrot" (1 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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Translations
22 translations across 17 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- رابط مكسور noun (steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 失效連結 /失效连结 noun (steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed)
Dutch
1 entries- linkrot noun (steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed)
Estonian
2 entries- lingikõdu noun (steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed)
- lingimädanik noun (steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed)
Finnish
1 entries- linkkirutto noun (steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed)
Indonesian
1 entries- pranala mati noun (steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed)
Japanese
1 entries- リンク切れ noun (steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed)
Macedonian
1 entries- изуми́рање на вр́ската noun (steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- lenkeråte noun (steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed)
Persian
1 entries- پیوند مرده noun (steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed)
Polish
1 entries- martwy link noun (steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed)
Portuguese
3 entries- apodrecimento de links noun (steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed)
- apodrecimento de referência noun (steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed)
- quebra de links noun (steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed)
Russian
1 entries- вымира́ние ссы́лок noun (steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed)
Swedish
1 entries- länkröta noun (steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed)
Turkish
3 entries- bağlantı bozulması noun (steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed)
- bağlantı kırılması noun (steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed)
- bağlantı ölümü noun (steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed)
Ukrainian
1 entries- вимирання посилань noun (steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed)
Urdu
1 entries- مردہ روابط noun (steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.