autocensura
Spanish, noun
autocensura is spelled A-U-T-O-C-E-N-S-U-R-A (11 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish, the 59,847th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Autocensura is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “self-censure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, autocensurá is a different word: “only used in te ... autocensurá, syntactic variant of autocensurate…”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de autocensurarse”.
What does autocensura mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineself-censure
- 2
feminineself-censorship
verb
- 1
only used in te ... autocensura, syntactic variant of autocensúrate, second-person singular imperative of autocensurarse
verb
- 1
only used in te ... autocensurá, syntactic variant of autocensurate, second-person singular voseo imperative of autocensurarse
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de autocensurarse.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of autocensura
- autocensuras plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is autocensura in Spanish?
autocensura appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).