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centro

Spanish, noun

centro is spelled C-E-N-T-R-O (6 letters) and appears 275 times per million words in written Spanish, the 293rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Centro is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “center” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of centrar. With an accent, centró is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of centrar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “El punto o línea que esta a mitad del camino entre dos extremos”.

What does centro mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinecenter

  2. 2

    masculinecenter

  3. 3

    masculinecenter, moderate tendencies or ideas

  4. 4

    masculinemiddle

  5. 5

    masculinecore, heart

  6. 6

    masculinecity center, downtown

  7. 7

    masculinecross (a pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch)

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of centrar

prefix

as centro-
  1. 1

    centro-; central

verb

as centró
  1. 1

    third-person singular preterite indicative of centrar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. El punto o línea que esta a mitad del camino entre dos extremos. 2. El punto que es equidistante de todos los puntos de una circunferencia. 3. El punto que es equidistante de todos los puntos de la superficie de una esfera. 4. Punto de una figura o un cuerpo que está más alejado de todos los extremos a la vez, generalmente midiéndose de acuerdo a alguna métrica específica.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of centro

  • centros plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to centro

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is centro in Spanish?

centro appears 275 times per million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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