cental

Other forms of cental

plural

centals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cental

What does cental mean?

cental means "a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds".

How many syllables are in cental?

cental has 2 syllables: cen-tal. The stress falls on "cen".

What is another word for cental?

Close synonyms include hundredweight, cwt, short hundredweight, centner, quintal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cental a common word?

cental is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.