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autocomplete

autocomplete verb: to complete automatically.

Verb

autocomplete (third-person singular simple present autocompletes, present participle autocompleting, simple past and past participle autocompleted)

  1. To complete automatically.

Noun

autocomplete (uncountable)

  1. A software feature that predicts the rest of a word a user is typing.
    • 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.2019, Gretchen McCulloch, chapter 2, in Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Riverhead Books, →ISBN

Forms of autocomplete

third-person singular presentautocompletes
present participleautocompleting
past participleautocompleted
pastautocompleted

Origin of autocomplete

From auto- + complete.

Questions about autocomplete

What does autocomplete mean?
Autocomplete means to complete automatically.
What part of speech is autocomplete?
Autocomplete can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of autocomplete?
The past tense of autocomplete is autocompleted.

Words near autocomplete in the dictionary

  1. autocompilation
  2. autocompile
  3. autocompiled
  4. autocompiles
  5. autocompiling
  6. autocomplete
  7. autocompleted
  8. autocompletes
  9. autocompleting
  10. autocompletion
  11. autocompletions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autocomplete (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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