excentrer
French, verb/ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁe/
excentrer is spelled E-X-C-E-N-T-R-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 87 million words in written French, the 291,657th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Excentrer is a French verb meaning “to offset” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Déplacer en dehors du centre, éloigner”.
What does excentrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to offset
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Déplacer en dehors du centre, éloigner. 2. Décaler l'axe de rotation par rapport au centre de gravité.
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 excentrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- excentrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- excentré participle past
- excentre first-person indicative present
- excentres indicative present second-person
- excentrons first-person indicative plural
- excentrez indicative plural present
- excentrent indicative plural present
- excentrais first-person imperfect indicative
- excentrait imperfect indicative singular
- excentrions first-person imperfect indicative
- excentriez imperfect indicative plural
- excentraient imperfect indicative plural
- excentrai first-person historic indicative
- excentras historic indicative past
- excentra historic indicative past
- excentrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce excentrer?
- /ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁe/
- \ɛk.sɑ̃.tʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is excentrer in French?
excentrer appears about once in every 87 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).