censurar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,898
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
censurar is aSpanishverb. It means: Formar juicio de una obra u otra cosa. Pronounced [sẽnsuˈɾaɾ]. Often confused with centrar and consular.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | censurar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [sẽnsuˈɾaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for censurar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sẽnsuˈɾaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #17,898 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for censurar, with forms such as "ccensurar", "cennsurar", and "censruar". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "centrar", "consular", "censuras", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is censurar, spelled C-E-N-S-U-R-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Formar juicio de una obra u otra cosa.
- 2Reprobar o notar por mala alguna cosa, casi siempre con base en la moral, con la intención de evitar que una acción continúe.
- 3Murmurar, vituperar.
- 4Examinar y remover, y a veces cambiar, partes de una obra o material de comunicación –comúnmente públicos o intelectuales–, con base en principios determinados por una autoridad o gobierno.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccensurar,cennsurar,censruar,censsurar,censuarr,censurarr,censurrar,cenusrar,cesnurar,cnesurar,ecnsurar,sensurar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for censurar
Misspelling Variants of "censurar"
Frequency rank: #17,898 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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