circulation
/ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/noun
circulation is spelled C-I-R-C-U-L-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is circulaton: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 156 of all searches for the word. Circulation is a noun meaning “The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began”. The plural of circulation is circulations.
How many letters and syllables are in circulation?
| Letters | 11: C-I-R-C-U-L-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 9.1 times per million words; the 7,553rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, circulaton, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell circulation?
Circulation is spelled C-I-R-C-U-L-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 156 of the searches for circulation in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is circulation?
Circulation appears 9.1 times per million words in written English, the 7,553rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce circulation?
- UK /ˌsɜː(ɹ).kjʊˈleɪ.ʃən/
- US /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/
Circulation has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-circulation.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with circulation?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as circulation from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃən/):
- situation
- association
- population
- administration
- operation
- organization
- application
- location
- generation
- foundation
- conversation
- investigation
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of circulation
- circulations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does circulation mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
- 2
The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.
- 3
Currency; circulating coins; notes, bills, etc., current for coin.
The new bills will come into circulation next Friday.
- 4
The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measurement of diffusion, especially the number of copies sold of a publication.
June 1 2016, Karen Roberts in the Evening Express, Aberdeen Journals - The Broad Street Years The reputation and circulation of the paper continued to grow, and the board decided a new custom-built base was required for both the Press and J
- 5
The movement of the blood in the circulatory system, by which it is brought into close relations with the cells and tissues of the body; (loosely) the circulatory system.
- 6
The movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Circulation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Kreislauf, Zirkulation, Umlauf , Umlaufen, Zirkulieren , Geldumlauf |
| Portuguese | circulação, circundação |
| Spanish | circulación |
| French | circulation |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does circulation come from?
From Middle English circulacioun, from Latin circulatio. Morphologically circulate + -ion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).