Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wordfilter

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: word-fil-ter
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Software that monitors text input to chatrooms etc., deleting or modifying offensive language.

Example Sentences

"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 word + filter.

Inflected Forms

wordfilters (plural) word filter (alternative)

Questions

What does wordfilter mean?: Software that monitors text input to chatrooms etc., deleting or modifying offensive language.
Where does wordfilter come from?: From word + filter.

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