# centurion

> English word · Noun · IPA /sɛnˈtjʊəɹ.i.ən/ · frequency rank #27,086

## Definitions
1. An officer of the ancient Roman army, in command of a century of soldiers.
2. A player who scores a century.
3. A pilot in the United States Navy who has performed one hundred night landings on an aircraft carrier.

## Etymology
From Middle English centurioun, from Latin centuriō, centuriōnis (“a commander of a hundred, centurion”), from Latin centum (“a hundred”). Displaced native English hundreder and hundredman, from Middle English hundredman, from Old English hundredmann (“centurion”).

## Easily confused with
- **centuries** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/centuries-vs-centurion)

## Common misspellings (13)
`ccenturion`, `cennturion`, `centruion`, `centturion`, `centuiron`, `centurino`, `centurionn`, `centuroin`, `centurrion`, `cenutrion`, `cetnurion`, `cneturion`, `ecnturion`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/centurion