centre de gravité
Letters
17 characters
Language
French
word origin
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centre de gravité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Barycentre. Pronounced \sɑ̃tʁ də ɡʁa.vi.te\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | centre de gravité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃tʁ də ɡʁa.vi.te\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Barycentre.
- 2Partie la plus importante d’un ensemble, qui attire l’attention.
- 3Élément, 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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