cercles

/\sɛʁkl\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,512

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

cercles is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de cercle. Pronounced \sɛʁkl\. It ranks #8,512 in French word frequency. Often confused with Cérès and certes.

Key facts for cercles
PropertyValue
Headwordcercles
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɛʁkl\
Letters7
Frequency rank#8,512
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cercles in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cercles is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛʁkl\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,512 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de cercle.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for cercles, with forms such as "ccercles", "cecrles", and "cerccles". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Cérès", "certes", "cycles", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cercles, spelled C-E-R-C-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de cercle.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccercles,cecrles,cerccles,cercels,cercless,cerclles,cerclse,cerlces,cerrcles,crecles,ecrcles

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cercles

Misspelling Variants of "cercles"

ccercles8cecrles7cerccles8cercels7cercless8cerclles8cerclse7cerlces7
Misspelling Variants of "cercles"

Frequency rank: #8,512 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cercles"?
"cercles" is spelled C-E-R-C-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛʁkl\.
What does "cercles" mean?
As a noun, "cercles" means: Pluriel de cercle.
What words are commonly confused with "cercles"?
"cercles" is commonly confused with "Cérès", "certes", "cycles". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cercles"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cercles" is \sɛʁkl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cercles" come from?
"cercles" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.