centre d’intérêt
\sɑ̃tʁ.dɛ.te.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“centre d’intérêt” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Objet ou sujet auquel l'on s’intéresse particulièrement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-centre-d-interet · centre d’intérêt · French
centre d’intérêt · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | centre d’intérêt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃tʁ.dɛ.te.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « centre d’intérêt » en français
Rare enough to double-check
centre d’intérêt is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɑ̃tʁ.dɛ.te.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Objet ou sujet auquel l'on s’intéresse particulièrement.".
No misspelling variants are generated for centre d’intérêt in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is centre d’intérêt, spelled C-E-N-T-R-E- -D-’-I-N-T-É-R-Ê-T.
Definition
- 1Objet ou sujet auquel l'on s’intéresse particulièrement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how centre d’intérêt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Angie avait bien vite compris les raisons de cette attitude : Petrina ne supportait pas que sa propre enfant lui volât la vedette en société et entendait bien rester le centre d'intérêt de tous...
Mes centres d’intérêt sont le jeu d’échecs et les mathématiques.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.