centaures
\sɑ̃.tɔʁ\
The verdict
“centaures” is uncommon French (frequency #57,156 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,156
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de centaure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-centaures · centaures · French
centaures · rank #57,156 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,156
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cervical
Nearest frequency peer: cervical (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « centaures »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- castelli
castelli
42,849 corpus weight
- centaures
centaures
42,845 corpus weight
- cervical
cervical
42,844 corpus weight
- challengers
challengers
42,843 corpus weight
- Chaptal
Chaptal
42,842 corpus weight
- chauffante
chauffante
42,841 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « centaures » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | centaures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.tɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « centaures » en français
Rare enough to double-check
centaures is uncommon French at frequency #57,156 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɑ̃.tɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de centaure.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for centaures, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is centaures, spelled C-E-N-T-A-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de centaure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how centaures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les familles poussetaient leurs enfants comme s’il s’agissait du futur dalaï-lama ; centaures à roulettes, les ados glissaient, piétinant leurs skates ; les vélos sinuaient dans la foule ensoleillée ; les athlètes en marcels fluos suaient dans l’air iodé ; légères, volubiles et nombreuses, les filles passaient.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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