cirque
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The verdict
“cirque” is uncommon German (frequency #56,864 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,864
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Zirkus
Corpus desk
Index DE-cirque · cirque · German
cirque · rank #56,864 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,864
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Cliffhanger
Nearest frequency peer: Cliffhanger (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „cirque“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Charkiw
Charkiw
43,143 corpus weight
- Chefsache
Chefsache
43,142 corpus weight
- Chopper
Chopper
43,140 corpus weight
- cirque
cirque
43,137 corpus weight
- Cliffhanger
Cliffhanger
43,136 corpus weight
- copper
copper
43,132 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „cirque“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cirque |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „cirque“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
cirque is uncommon German at frequency #56,864 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "der Zirkus".
cirque doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is cirque, spelled C-I-R-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1der Zirkus
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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