centre de gravité

/\sɑ̃tʁ də ɡʁa.vi.te\/ noun

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Language

French

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centre de gravité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Barycentre. Pronounced \sɑ̃tʁ də ɡʁa.vi.te\.

Key facts for centre de gravité
PropertyValue
Headwordcentre de gravité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɑ̃tʁ də ɡʁa.vi.te\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

centre de gravité is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for centre de gravité is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɑ̃tʁ də ɡʁa.vi.te\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for centre de gravité in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is centre de gravité, spelled C-E-N-T-R-E- -D-E- -G-R-A-V-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Barycentre.
  2. 2
    Partie la plus importante d’un ensemble, qui attire l’attention.
  3. 3
    Élément, matériel ou immatériel, dont un pays, ou un ensemble de pays, une collectivité, une force militaire, tire sa puissance, sa liberté d’action ou sa volonté de combattre et dont la perte entraîne la défaite. Note : notion popularisée d’après les écrits des stratèges militaires Carl von Clausewitz et Antoine de Jomini.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "centre de gravité"?
"centre de gravité" is spelled C-E-N-T-R-E- -D-E- -G-R-A-V-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \sɑ̃tʁ də ɡʁa.vi.te\.
What does "centre de gravité" mean?
As a noun, "centre de gravité" means: Barycentre.
How do you pronounce "centre de gravité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "centre de gravité" is \sɑ̃tʁ də ɡʁa.vi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.