Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

prefilter

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.43 in modern English

Syllables: pre-filter
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To filter in advance.

Transitive verb

noun

A filter used in advance.

Example Sentences

"The prefiltered data was fed to a computer program for analysis."
"Facebook does not allow for pre-moderation of comments on pages and comments cannot be turned off, however NSW supreme court justice Stephen Rothman had argued that the media companies could have used a word filter using extremely common words to pre-filter the majority of comments to only be visible to the page owner and that user and their friends."

Etymology

From pre- + filter.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: pre

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

prefilters (present, singular) prefiltering (participle, present) prefiltered (participle, past) prefiltered (past) pre-filter (alternative) prefilters (plural)

Questions

What does prefilter mean?: To filter in advance.
Where does prefilter come from?: From pre- + filter.

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