circonspect
\siʁ.kɔ̃s.pɛ\
The verdict
“circonspect” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,067. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,067
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui prend garde à ce qu’il dit, à ce qu’il fait, en ayant égard aux circonstances, au milieu. Qui ne s’engage qu’après examen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-circonspect · circonspect · French
circonspect · rank #46,067 · 18 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,067
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cigognes
Nearest frequency peer: cigognes (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « circonspect »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- châtaignier
châtaignier
53,937 corpus weight
- chèrement
chèrement
53,936 corpus weight
- cigognes
cigognes
53,935 corpus weight
- circonspect
circonspect
53,934 corpus weight
- citizens
citizens
53,933 corpus weight
- clairvoyant
clairvoyant
53,932 corpus weight
What this shows « circonspect » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | circonspect |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \siʁ.kɔ̃s.pɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #46,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « circonspect »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around circonspect (IPA \siʁ.kɔ̃s.pɛ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #46,067 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for circonspect, with forms such as "ccirconspect", "cicronspect", and "circconspect". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 circonspect, spelled C-I-R-C-O-N-S-P-E-C-T.
Definition
- 1Qui prend garde à ce qu’il dit, à ce qu’il fait, en ayant égard aux circonstances, au milieu. Qui ne s’engage qu’après examen.
- 2Qui marque de la circonspection.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how circonspect appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les vieux, à ce propos, devinrent aussitôt circonspects, et demandèrent des explications.
Elle se tut, elle aussi, par une prudence de femme adonnée aux amours coupables, car les fautes comme l’innocence concourent à nous rendre circonspects.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccirconspect
- cicronspect
- circconspect
- circnospect
- circonnspect
- circonpsect
- circonsepct
- circonspcet
- circonspecct
- circonspectt
- circonspetc
- circonsppect
- circonsspect
- circosnpect
- cirocnspect
- cirrconspect
- criconspect
- icrconspect
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of circonspect - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).