circ
/sɝk/
"circ" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“circ” is uncommon English (frequency #67,313 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,313
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus.
Corpus desk
Index EN-circ · circ · English
circ · rank #67,313 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,313
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cloying
Nearest frequency peer: cloying (+2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “circ”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Chittenden
Chittenden
32,693 corpus weight
- chokehold
chokehold
32,692 corpus weight
- circ
circ
32,688 corpus weight
- cloying
cloying
32,686 corpus weight
- coalescing
coalescing
32,685 corpus weight
- cobweb
cobweb
32,684 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “circ” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “circ” in English
Rare enough to double-check
circ is uncommon English at frequency #67,313 among 5,599 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how circ appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It is remarkable, that circs of the same ſort are still to be seen in Cornwall
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).