barycenter
noun, verb
barycenter is spelled B-A-R-Y-C-E-N-T-E-R. The wrong spelling people search most is baricenter: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 17 of all searches for the word. Barycenter is a noun meaning “The center of a mass; often specifically, the point at which the gravitational forces exerted by two objects…”. The plural of barycenter is barycenters.
How many letters and syllables are in barycenter?
| Letters | 10: B-A-R-Y-C-E-N-T-E-R |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 38 million words; the 189,524th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, baricenter, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell barycenter?
Barycenter is spelled B-A-R-Y-C-E-N-T-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 17 of the searches for barycenter in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is barycenter?
Barycenter appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce barycenter?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-barycenter.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of barycenter
- barycenters plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- barycentre
- barycentering participle, present
- barycentered participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does barycenter mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The center of a mass; often specifically, the point at which the gravitational forces exerted by two objects are equal
the Earth–Moon barycenter
- 2
The centroid, the geometric center of a plane figure
verb
- 1
To determine such a barycenter
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Barycenter in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense physics: center of a mass:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | barycentre |
| Portuguese | baricentro |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does barycenter come from?
From bary- + center.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).