circles
\ˈsɝ.kl̩z\
The verdict
“circles” is uncommon French (frequency #73,013 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,013
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de circle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-circles · circles · French
circles · rank #73,013 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,013
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH circoncire
Nearest frequency peer: circoncire (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « circles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chronométra…
chronométrage
26,992 corpus weight
- chérissent
chérissent
26,990 corpus weight
- circles
circles
26,988 corpus weight
- circoncire
circoncire
26,987 corpus weight
- classifiées
classifiées
26,986 corpus weight
- cloportes
cloportes
26,984 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « circles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | circles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈsɝ.kl̩z\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « circles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
circles is uncommon French at frequency #73,013 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈsɝ.kl̩z\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de circle.".
No misspelling variants are generated for circles in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is circles, spelled C-I-R-C-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de circle.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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