centrage
\sɑ̃.tʁaʒ\
The verdict
“centrage” is uncommon French (frequency #78,244 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,244
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de centrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-centrage · centrage · French
centrage · rank #78,244 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,244
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cessionnaire
Nearest frequency peer: cessionnaire (+2 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 « centrage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cautionnent
cautionnent
21,763 corpus weight
- cayo
cayo
21,762 corpus weight
- centrage
centrage
21,757 corpus weight
- cessionnaire
cessionnaire
21,755 corpus weight
- CFM
CFM
21,754 corpus weight
- chabbat
chabbat
21,753 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « centrage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | centrage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.tʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,244 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « centrage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
centrage is uncommon French at frequency #78,244 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɑ̃.tʁaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for centrage, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is centrage, spelled C-E-N-T-R-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de centrer.
- 2Action de centrer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how centrage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s’agit de l’analyse de la personnalité vue sous l’angle d’un processus de « centrage sur soi ».
La position du centre de gravité par rapport à la corde de référence AB de la voilure caractérise la valeur du centrage de l’avion.
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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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