centime
\sɑ̃.tim\
The verdict
“centime” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,827. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,827
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - La centième partie du franc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-centime · centime · French
centime · rank #16,827 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,827
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cayenne
Nearest frequency peer: Cayenne (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « centime »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Caucase
Caucase
83,177 corpus weight
- caviar
caviar
83,176 corpus weight
- Cayenne
Cayenne
83,175 corpus weight
- centime
centime
83,174 corpus weight
- cessation
cessation
83,173 corpus weight
- charia
charia
83,172 corpus weight
What this shows « centime » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | centime |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.tim\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,827 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « centime »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around centime (IPA \sɑ̃.tim\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,827 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for centime, with forms such as "ccentime", "cenitme", and "cenntime". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "centre", "centrée", "centimes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is centime, spelled C-E-N-T-I-M-E.
Definition
- 1La centième partie du franc.
- 2La centième partie de l’euro.
- 3Pièce de valeur faciale de un centime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how centime appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les ouvriers occupés à la fouille et à l’extraction des coquins bruts, travaillent à la tâche ; on les paye à raison de 33 centimes le mètre cube de minerai extrait. Les bons ouvriers gagnent 3 fr 50 par jour.
On demanda aux enfants des écoles d’apporter une obole. Je donnai une pièce de cinq sous en nickel dont la valeur faciale, vingt-cinq centimes, était inscrite en grands chiffres dans un cadre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccentime
- cenitme
- cenntime
- centiem
- centimme
- centmie
- centtime
- cetnime
- cnetime
- ecntime
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of centime - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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