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center vs centre

Both 'center' and 'centre' are correct spellings of the same word, with 'center' being the American English spelling and 'centre' being the British English spelling. The choice between the two depends on the English variant you are using.

Last updated: March 23, 2024 • 1255 views

center

This is the American English spelling of the word 'center'.

Use 'center' when writing in American English.

Examples:

  • The town center is a popular meeting place.
  • She likes to center her thoughts before making a decision.
  • I better get that research center.
  • Should be at the center stairwell.
  • Interdepartmental basketball, he's their center.
  • I'm center wing, so they really need me.
  • Surveillance footage from a gas station behind the recreation center.
  • The loving couples center offers many different workshops.
  • Raccoon City, nearest urban center.
  • Coffeehouses, craigslist, the student center.
  • Cafferty over center, counter faked.
  • Our cultural center offers language class.
  • Someone declared my street a center of resistance.
  • Sir, our center is routed.
  • We just lost our West Coast technology center.
  • This center, selling lifestyle - my idea.
  • This is our medical center and temporarily our day-care.
  • - David Kruipen's research center.
  • This obviously is the programming center.
  • The youth center psychologist is a maybe.
  • China just launched a national tissue-engineering center.
  • Royal Kenbritte University, the center of education.

Alternatives:

  • middle
  • midpoint
  • heart
  • focus
  • core

centre

This is the British English spelling of the word 'center'.

Use 'centre' when writing in British English.

Examples:

  • The town centre is bustling with activity.
  • She prefers to sit in the centre of the room.
  • She ran their maximum security detention centre.
  • So Gideon saved your centre from ruin.
  • You must place a hand to that centre stone.
  • A misfiring call centre in Bangalore.
  • Any references to wheelsets concern centre of wheels.
  • Solidarity and responsibility rightly take centre stage in this plan.
  • Projects are grouped by results centre.
  • Flag - Training centre and teaching materials etc.
  • Existence of costs of training centre and teaching materials etc.
  • We need that centre to coordinate information.
  • Two months we said when you came back from the treatment centre.
  • The centre started working their contacts.
  • The centre asked Emmet and Leanne to bring Jared into the fold.
  • Diva wrote a letter to some yoga centre in London.
  • You abandoned your husband in a shopping centre.
  • Mary takes centre frame, whereas John is always partly or entirely excluded.
  • Someone was calling you from the town centre that night.
  • Sir, Mrs. Warren's not in the centre.
  • Going back to t'treatment centre might be just what the doctor ordered.
  • I'm already on my way back to the treatment centre.

Alternatives:

  • middle
  • midpoint
  • heart
  • focus
  • core

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