Selbstzensur
[ˈzɛlpstt͡sɛnˌzuːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Selbstzensur” is uncommon German (frequency #76,160 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,160
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maßnahme einer Person oder Institution, die die eigenen Handlungen oder Texte von allem freihält/freimacht, das Anstoß erregen oder Sanktionen hervorrufen kann
Corpus desk
Index DE-selbstzensur · Selbstzensur · German
Selbstzensur · rank #76,160 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,160
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH selbstverstän…
Nearest frequency peer: selbstverständlicher (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Selbstzensur“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Sekretariats
Sekretariats
23,845 corpus weight
- Selbstbehalt
Selbstbehalt
23,844 corpus weight
- Selbsterfah…
Selbsterfahrung
23,843 corpus weight
- selbstverst…
selbstverständlicher
23,842 corpus weight
- Selbstzensur
Selbstzensur
23,841 corpus weight
- selektiver
selektiver
23,840 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Selbstzensur“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Selbstzensur |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzɛlpstt͡sɛnˌzuːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #76,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Selbstzensur“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Selbstzensur is uncommon German at frequency #76,160 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈzɛlpstt͡sɛnˌzuːɐ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Maßnahme einer Person oder Institution, die die eigenen Handlungen oder Texte von allem freihält/freimacht, das Anstoß erregen oder Sanktionen hervorrufen kann".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Selbstzensur, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Selbstzensur, spelled S-E-L-B-S-T-Z-E-N-S-U-R.
Definition
- 1Maßnahme einer Person oder Institution, die die eigenen Handlungen oder Texte von allem freihält/freimacht, das Anstoß erregen oder Sanktionen hervorrufen kann
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Selbstzensur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Was mit der »Walpurgisnacht« geschah, ist nun ein sehr klarer Fall von Selbstzensur.“
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).