Wordfilter

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Software that monitors text input to chatrooms etc., deleting or modifying offensive language.

    "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."

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"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.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.