# centre vs century

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### centre
*noun · IPA /ˈsɛntə/ · frequency rank #1,180*
Australia, British, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa standard spelling of center.

### century
*noun · IPA /ˈsɛnt͡ʃʊɹi/ · frequency rank #1,011*
A period of one hundred consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (informally) 1900 through 1999. The first century AD was from 1 to 100.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/centre-vs-century