Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

health centre

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.83 in modern English

Syllables: health -cen-tre
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A clinic staffed by a group of general practitioners and nurses.

Etymology

Compound of health + centre.

Inflected Forms

health centres (plural) health center (alternative, Philippines) healthcentre (alternative)

Questions

What does health centre mean?: A clinic staffed by a group of general practitioners and nurses.
Where does health centre come from?: Compound of health + centre.

How to pronounce health centre

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