censorship
cen·sor·ship/ˈsɛnsɚʃɪp/noun
censorship is spelled C-E-N-S-O-R-S-H-I-P, 3 syllables: cen·sor·ship. The wrong spelling people search most is sensorship: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 44 of all searches for the word. Censorship is a noun meaning “The use of state or group power to control freedom of expression or press, such as passing laws to prevent…”. The plural of censorship is censorships.
How many letters and syllables are in censorship?
| Letters | 10: C-E-N-S-O-R-S-H-I-P |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: cen·sor·ship |
| In writing | 7.1 times per million words; the 8,918th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, sensorship, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell censorship?
Censorship is spelled C-E-N-S-O-R-S-H-I-P. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 44 of the searches for censorship in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is censorship?
Censorship appears 7.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,918th 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).
How do you pronounce censorship?
- UK /ˈsɛnsəʃɪp/
- US /ˈsɛnsɚʃɪp/
Censorship has 3 syllables, split cen·sor·ship in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-censorship.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-censorship.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of censorship
- censorships plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does censorship mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The use of state or group power to control freedom of expression or press, such as passing laws to prevent undesirable media from being published or propagated.
- 2
The role of the censor (magistrate) in Ancient Rome.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Censorship in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense use of state or group power to control freedom of expression:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does censorship come from?
From censor + -ship.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).