cental
/ˈsɛntəl/
"cental" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cental” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A weight of one hundred avoirdupois pounds.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cental · cental · English
cental · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cental |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɛntəl/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cental” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cental is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsɛntəl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A weight of one hundred avoirdupois pounds.".
cental doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin centum (“a hundred”) + -al, perhaps modeled after quintal. The correct English form is cental, spelled C-E-N-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1A weight of one hundred avoirdupois pounds.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cental appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Thin native steers, dressing 56 pounds per cwt., $10.50 per cental;
The practice of buying or selling grain by the 100 pounds, or the cental system, is becoming almost universal, and has many advantages over the old practice of selling grain by the bushel.
Etymology
From Latin centum (“a hundred”) + -al, perhaps modeled after quintal.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.