circ
/sɝk/
"circ" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“circ” is uncommon English (frequency #67,313 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,313
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | circ |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɝk/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,313 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “circ” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
circ is uncommon English at frequency #67,313 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /sɝk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus.".
Zero misspellings are on record for circ in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: See circus. The correct English form is circ, spelled C-I-R-C.
Definition
- 1An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus.
Etymology
See circus.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “circ”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-I-R-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.