centuple
\sɑ̃.typl\
The verdict
“centuple” is uncommon French (frequency #73,813 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,813
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - La quantité cent fois plus grande.
Corpus desk
Index FR-centuple · centuple · French
centuple · rank #73,813 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,813
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caïques
Nearest frequency peer: caïques (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « centuple »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caténaires
caténaires
26,192 corpus weight
- Cauterets
Cauterets
26,191 corpus weight
- Cayrol
Cayrol
26,190 corpus weight
- caïques
caïques
26,189 corpus weight
- centuple
centuple
26,188 corpus weight
- Cerberus
Cerberus
26,187 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « centuple » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | centuple |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.typl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,813 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « centuple » en français
Rare enough to double-check
centuple is uncommon French at frequency #73,813 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɑ̃.typl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for centuple, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is centuple, spelled C-E-N-T-U-P-L-E.
Definition
- 1La quantité cent fois plus grande.
- 2En termes d’écriture sainte,
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how centuple appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On lui a donné le centuple.
Un fonds qui rapporte, qui rend au centuple.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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