centimes
\sɑ̃.tim\
The verdict
“centimes” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,668. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,668
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de centime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-centimes · centimes · French
centimes · rank #8,668 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,668
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cachés
Nearest frequency peer: cachés (-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 « centimes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- brad
brad
91,336 corpus weight
- bêtise
bêtise
91,335 corpus weight
- cachés
cachés
91,334 corpus weight
- centimes
centimes
91,333 corpus weight
- chancelier
chancelier
91,332 corpus weight
- chaussettes
chaussettes
91,331 corpus weight
What this shows « centimes » 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 | centimes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.tim\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « centimes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around centimes (IPA \sɑ̃.tim\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,668 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de centime.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for centimes, with forms such as "ccentimes", "cenitmes", and "cenntimes". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "centrés", "centrées", "centime", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is centimes, spelled C-E-N-T-I-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de centime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how centimes 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.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccentimes
- cenitmes
- cenntimes
- centiems
- centimess
- centimmes
- centimse
- centmies
- centtimes
- cetnimes
- cnetimes
- ecntimes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of centimes - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).