censurer
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,512
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
censurer is aFrenchverb. It means: Blâmer, critiquer, reprendre. Pronounced \sɑ̃.sy.ʁe\. Often confused with césure and centrer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | censurer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.sy.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,512 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for censurer is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɑ̃.sy.ʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #24,512 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for censurer, with forms such as "ccensurer", "cennsurer", and "censruer". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "césure", "centrer", "consumer", 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 censurer, spelled C-E-N-S-U-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Blâmer, critiquer, reprendre.
- 2Déclarer qu’un livre, qu’une proposition, etc. contient des erreurs.
- 3Interdire la publication ou la diffusion de livres, revues, etc.
- 4Frapper de nullité un acte législatif.
- 5Prononcer une peine disciplinaire contre un ou des membres d'une confrérie, d'un corps, etc.
- 6Retirer un patient d'une étude lorsque l’on arrête de le suivre avant la survenue de l’événement étudié. Le patient est dit censuré, par exemple lorsqu'il est encore vivant à la fin d'une étude de survie.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccensurer,cennsurer,censruer,censsurer,censuerr,censurerr,censurrer,cenusrer,cesnurer,cnesurer,ecnsurer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for censurer
Misspelling Variants of "censurer"
Frequency rank: #24,512 in French
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Nearby French words
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