centrale
"centrale" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“centrale” is uncommon English (frequency #66,548 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,548
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or tarsus in most vertebrates. In the human tarsus it is represented by the navicular.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | centrale |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,548 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “centrale” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
centrale is uncommon English at frequency #66,548 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or tarsus in most vertebrates. In the human tarsus it is represented by the navicular.".
centrale has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From New Latin centrāle. The correct English form is centrale, spelled C-E-N-T-R-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or tarsus in most vertebrates. In the human tarsus it is represented by the navicular.
Etymology
From New Latin centrāle.
Synonyms
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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Using “centrale”
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- The one correct English spelling is C-E-N-T-R-A-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.