autocensure
\o.to.sɑ̃.syʁ\
The verdict
“autocensure” is uncommon French (frequency #53,788 among 424,905 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,788
- frequency rank, French
- 424,905
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Censure que l’on s’applique à soi-même, par pudeur ou, préventivement, pour éviter la censure étatique ou autre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | autocensure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.to.sɑ̃.syʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #53,788 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “autocensure” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
autocensure is uncommon French at frequency #53,788 among 424,905 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \o.to.sɑ̃.syʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Censure que l’on s’applique à soi-même, par pudeur ou, préventivement, pour éviter la censure étatique ou autre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for autocensure in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct French form is autocensure, spelled A-U-T-O-C-E-N-S-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Censure que l’on s’applique à soi-même, par pudeur ou, préventivement, pour éviter la censure étatique ou autre.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “autocensure”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-U-T-O-C-E-N-S-U-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.