autocomplete

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.22 in modern English

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Meaning

verb

noun

Uncountable

"Tools like spellcheck, autocomplete, and speech-to-text impose someone's ideas of the rules of English automatically—invisible authorities that we can defy but not avoid."

Etymology tree Proto-Hellenic *autós Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder. Ancient Greek αὖ (aû) Ancient Greek τόν (tón) Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós) Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-) Proto-Indo-European *mn̥tós Proto-Hellenic *mətós Ancient Greek αὐτόμᾰτος (autómătos) Ancient Greek αὐτόμᾰτον (autómăton)der. Classical Latin automatum New Latin automaticusbor. English automaticclip. English auto- English complete English autocomplete From auto- + complete.

autocompletes (present, singular) autocompleting (participle, present) autocompleted (participle, past) autocompleted (past)

autocompletion autocorrect

Questions

What does autocomplete mean?

To complete automatically.

Where does autocomplete come from?

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