centre de masse

/\sɑ̃tʁ də mas\/ noun

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

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centre de masse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Un point dans ou près d’un corps où on peut assumer que la masse est concentrée. Pronounced \sɑ̃tʁ də mas\.

Key facts for centre de masse
PropertyValue
Headwordcentre de masse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɑ̃tʁ də mas\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

centre de masse 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 masse is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɑ̃tʁ də mas\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Un point dans ou près d’un corps où on peut assumer que la masse est concentrée.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for centre de masse 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 masse, spelled C-E-N-T-R-E- -D-E- -M-A-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Un point dans ou près d’un corps où on peut assumer que la masse est concentrée.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "centre de masse"?
"centre de masse" is spelled C-E-N-T-R-E- -D-E- -M-A-S-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɑ̃tʁ də mas\.
What does "centre de masse" mean?
As a noun, "centre de masse" means: Un point dans ou près d’un corps où on peut assumer que la masse est concentrée.
How do you pronounce "centre de masse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "centre de masse" is \sɑ̃tʁ də mas\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "centre de masse" come from?
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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.