centuple
French, noun
centuple is spelled C-E-N-T-U-P-L-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 73,828th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Centuple is a French masculine noun meaning “hundredfold quantity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of centupler. With an accent, centuplé is a different word: “past participle of centupler”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “La quantité cent fois plus grande”.
What does centuple mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehundredfold quantity
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of centupler
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. La quantité cent fois plus grande. 2. En termes d’écriture sainte,
adjective: 1. Qui vaut cent fois autant.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of centuple
- centuples plural
- centuplée feminine
- centuplés masculine plural
- centuplées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to centuple
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is centuple in French?
centuple appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).