censure
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,218
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
censure is aFrenchnoun. It means: Examen qu’un gouvernement fait faire des livres, des journaux, des pièces de théâtre, etc., avant d’en permettre la publication ou la représentation. Pronounced \sɑ̃.syʁ\. It ranks #5,218 in French word frequency. Often confused with centre and Cesare.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | censure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.syʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for censure is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɑ̃.syʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,218 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for censure, with forms such as "ccensure", "cennsure", and "censrue". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "centre", "Cesare", "césure", 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 French form is censure, spelled C-E-N-S-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Examen qu’un gouvernement fait faire des livres, des journaux, des pièces de théâtre, etc., avant d’en permettre la publication ou la représentation.
- 2Corps des personnes chargées de cet examen.
- 3Correction, répréhension, interdiction de publication.
- 4Silence médiatique concernant une publication ou une information.
- 5En matière de dogme, jugement qui porte condamnation.
- 6Excommunication, interdiction ou suspension d’exercice et de charge ecclésiastique.
- 7Peine disciplinaire que les corps, les ordres, les communautés et les assemblées délibérantes prononcent contre un de leurs membres.
- 8Dignité et fonction de censeur chez les romains.
- 9Annulation d’un acte législatif pour non-respect d’autres dispositions législatives, en particulier constitutionnelles.
- 10Fonction ayant l’effet de bloquer les désirs refoulés de l’inconscient de passer au préconscient.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccensure,cennsure,censrue,censsure,censuer,censurre,cenusre,cesnure,cnesure,ecnsure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for censure
Misspelling Variants of "censure"
Frequency rank: #5,218 in French
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