“Centerpiece” or “Centrepiece”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 10 prefer “centerpiece” and 1 prefer “centrepiece”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	centerpiece	centrepiece	Preference
United States	100	0	“centerpiece”
United Kingdom	55	45	“centerpiece”
India	88	12	“centerpiece”
Philippines	99	1	“centerpiece”
Canada	78	22	“centerpiece”
Australia	43	57	“centrepiece”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	55	45	“centerpiece”
New Zealand	55	45	“centerpiece”
Jamaica	100	0	“centerpiece”
Trinidad & Tobago	86	14	“centerpiece”
Guyana	100	0	“centerpiece”

Usage

Examples in context

Real sentences for each spelling. Hover an example to copy it.

“centerpiece”

The Monument, is the centerpiece of the EMI's main campus…
…Ethernet, it could be the centerpiece of an animation operation.
…Moscow River, which was the centerpiece and core of the city's…
…making the Harvard Library a centerpiece for students at the University,…
…SNHU Arena has become the centerpiece of downtown Manchester.
…upcoming group to be the centerpiece of his new Atlantic-distributed label,
Centerpiece Fiction & Other Realities directed…
…work was featured as a centerpiece of the Perceiving Space in…
Leipzig forms the centerpiece of the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland public…
Seoul LGBT Film Festival (centerpiece selection)

“centrepiece”

…made private renters' rights a centrepiece of her campaign.
…Austin Clarke who was the centrepiece of the exhibition; theatre plays,…
It then became the album's centrepiece, with McMahon explaining: "...all of…
…with Baker, which was the centrepiece of a Special Issue (#10/11)…
…in the 1830s and the centrepiece of a large property near…
…a Baroque flower garden, whose centrepiece is a pond with a…
The centrepiece of the album is 'Decadence',…
The chimera's despair forms the centrepiece of the work; its agony…
…no longer featured as the centrepiece of Rush's compositions.
The exhibition centrepiece was the original 'Votes for…

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