centigrade
"centigrade" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“centigrade” is uncommon English (frequency #54,679 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,679
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having 100 divisions between two fixed points.
Corpus desk
Index EN-centigrade · centigrade · English
centigrade · rank #54,679 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,679
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Ceci
Nearest frequency peer: Ceci (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “centigrade”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Carnarvon
Carnarvon
45,326 corpus weight
- Ceci
Ceci
45,323 corpus weight
- centigrade
centigrade
45,322 corpus weight
- cerebellar
cerebellar
45,321 corpus weight
- chamois
chamois
45,319 corpus weight
- chapped
chapped
45,318 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “centigrade” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | centigrade |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #54,679 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “centigrade” in English
Rare enough to double-check
centigrade is uncommon English at frequency #54,679 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
centigrade has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From centi- (“hundred”) + grade (“degree”). The correct English form is centigrade, spelled C-E-N-T-I-G-R-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Having 100 divisions between two fixed points.
- 2Celsius.
Etymology
From centi- (“hundred”) + grade (“degree”).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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