centaure
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#40,664
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
centaure is aFrenchnoun. It means: Être fabuleux de la mythologie grecque, moitié homme et moitié cheval, plus précisément cheval dont la tête est remplacée par un buste d’homme. Pronounced \sɑ̃.tɔʁ\. Often confused with centre and century.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | centaure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.tɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for centaure is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɑ̃.tɔʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #40,664 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for centaure, with forms such as "ccentaure", "cenature", and "cenntaure". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "centre", "century", "censure", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is centaure, spelled C-E-N-T-A-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être fabuleux de la mythologie grecque, moitié homme et moitié cheval, plus précisément cheval dont la tête est remplacée par un buste d’homme.
- 2Cavalier thessalien qui chassait les taureaux sauvages.
- 3Cavalier habile et infatigable.
- 4Petit corps glacé qui gravite autour du Soleil entre Jupiter et Neptune.
- 5Meuble représentant l’être mythologique du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté passant. Il peut être armé d'une massue, une épée ou d’un arc (dans ce cas, il est préférentiellement appelé centaure-sagittaire).
- 6Coléoptère africain de la famille des Dynastinae, de grande taille avec deux cornes.
- 7Entreprise ayant atteint 100 millions de dollars de chiffre d'affaire annuel.
- 8Être humain assisté par une machine.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccentaure,cenature,cenntaure,centarue,centauer,centaurre,centtaure,centuare,cetnaure,cnetaure,ecntaure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for centaure
Misspelling Variants of "centaure"
Frequency rank: #40,664 in French
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