centigrade
adjective, noun
centigrade is spelled C-E-N-T-I-G-R-A-D-E: 10 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 54,808th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, centigrade means “Having 100 divisions between two fixed points” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in centigrade?
| Letters | 10: C-E-N-T-I-G-R-A-D-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 54,808th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is centigrade?
Centigrade appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 54,808th 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 centigrade?
Centigrade has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of centigrade
- centigrades plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does centigrade mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having 100 divisions between two fixed points.
- 2
Celsius.
noun
- 1
A centigrade scale for temperature having the freezing point of water defined as 0° and its boiling point defined as 100° at standard atmospheric pressure.
all temperatures are expressed in centigrade unless otherwise noted
- 2
archaicA single degree on this scale.
a temperature of 34 centigrades
- 3
The scale for angle measurement on which a gradian (a grad or gon) is the hundredth part of a quadrant.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Centigrade in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense centigrade temperature scale:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | centigrade |
| German | hundertgradig, hundertteilig |
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 centigrade come from?
From centi- (“hundred”) + grade (“degree”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).