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autostart

verb, noun

autostart is a verb meaning “To start automatically” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-U-T-O-S-T-A-R-T, and it appears about once in every 51 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does autostart mean?

verb

  1. 1

    To start automatically.

noun

  1. 1

    (An instance of) automatic starting.

  2. 2

    A program or application set to start automatically.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of autostart

  • autostarts present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • autostarting participle, present
  • autostarted participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is autostart?

Autostart appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does autostart come from?

From auto- + start.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).