barycentre
\ba.ʁi.sɑ̃tʁ\
The verdict
“barycentre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Point d’intersection des trois médianes d’un triangle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-barycentre · barycentre · French
barycentre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barycentre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ʁi.sɑ̃tʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « barycentre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
barycentre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.ʁi.sɑ̃tʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for barycentre, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is barycentre, spelled B-A-R-Y-C-E-N-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Point d’intersection des trois médianes d’un triangle.
- 2Centre de gravité.
- 3Notion de moyenne (ou espérance).
- 4Notion de centre d’inertie (ou de centre de masse ou de centre de gravité).
- 5Notion de moment (moment d’inertie, moment cinétique).
- 6Centre de masse d’une molécule, utilisé pour décrire ses mouvements globaux sans tenir compte des mouvements internes des atomes ou des électrons.
- 7Noyau, milieu, partie centrale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how barycentre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les géomètres-experts de la Marne ont mesuré le centre de gravité, ou barycentre, du Champagne marnais.
Au total, le barycentre de cet ensemble paraît se situer un peu plus à gauche que celui de Benjamin Griveaux.
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.