centime

Other forms of centime

plural

centimes·

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 centime

What does centime mean?

centime means "a fractional monetary unit of several countries: France and Algeria and Belgium and Burkina Faso and Burundi and Cameroon and Chad and the Congo and Gabon and Haiti and the Ivory Coast and Luxembourg and Mali and Morocco and Niger and Rwanda and Senegal and Switzerland and Togo". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in centime?

centime has 2 syllables: cen-time. The stress falls on "cen". In IPA it is /ˈsɛnˌtaɪm/.

What is another word for centime?

Close synonyms include penny, cent. 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 centime a common word?

centime 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.

What rhymes with centime?

30 words rhyme with centime. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.