hundredweight
\ˈhʌn.dɹɪd.ˌweɪt\
The verdict
“hundredweight” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de mesure de masse du système impérial britannique de symbole cwt égale à 112 livres avoirdupois, soit 50,8023453952 kilogrammes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hundredweight · hundredweight · French
hundredweight · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hundredweight |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhʌn.dɹɪd.ˌweɪt\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
hundredweight is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈhʌn.dɹɪd.ˌweɪt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
hundredweight doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is hundredweight, spelled H-U-N-D-R-E-D-W-E-I-G-H-T.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure de masse du système impérial britannique de symbole cwt égale à 112 livres avoirdupois, soit 50,8023453952 kilogrammes.
- 2Unité de mesure de masse de symbole cwt égale à 100 livres avoirdupois, soit exactement 45,35923696 kilogrammes.
- 3Synonyme de quintal, unité de mesure contenant différentes quantités selon les objets pesés.
- 4Diverses unités d’anciens systèmes de mesure consistant en 100 unités généralement traduites par “pounds”.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hundredweight appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The hundredweight of 112 avoirdupois lbs. becomes general in the period before me, and is employed for the commoner kinds of materials.
In North America, a hundredweight is equal to 100 pounds.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.