centurie
\sɑ̃.ty.ʁi\
The verdict
“centurie” is uncommon French (frequency #99,974 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,974
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Division militaire romaine de cent hommes, ou division politique capable de fournir cent hommes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-centurie · centurie · French
centurie · rank #99,974 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,974
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cerca
Nearest frequency peer: cerca (+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 « centurie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Carniole
Carniole
33 corpus weight
- carp
carp
32 corpus weight
- carri
carri
31 corpus weight
- Catroux
Catroux
29 corpus weight
- centurie
centurie
27 corpus weight
- cerca
cerca
26 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « centurie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | centurie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.ty.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « centurie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
centurie is uncommon French at frequency #99,974 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɑ̃.ty.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
centurie has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is centurie, spelled C-E-N-T-U-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Division militaire romaine de cent hommes, ou division politique capable de fournir cent hommes.
- 2Groupe d’environ cent personnes.
- 3Centaine, groupe de cent choses.
- 4Siècle, espace de cent ans.
- 5Ouvrage divisé par siècles ou divisée par centaine de vers.
- 6Série numérotée de cent planches d’herbier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how centurie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le second [ordre] était composé de deux centuries formant un effectif de 220 hommes dirigés par le premier hastaire (primus hastatus).
Le peuple romain fut distribué par centuries.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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