circonstanciel
The verdict
“circonstanciel” is uncommon French (frequency #73,833 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,833
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui indique une circonstance de l’action ou de l’état marqué par le verbe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-circonstanciel · circonstanciel · French
circonstanciel · rank #73,833 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,833
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH citi
Nearest frequency peer: citi (+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 « circonstanciel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chiliennes
chiliennes
26,171 corpus weight
- chocolatiers
chocolatiers
26,170 corpus weight
- circonstanc…
circonstanciel
26,168 corpus weight
- citi
citi
26,167 corpus weight
- Claes
Claes
26,166 corpus weight
- clairsemée
clairsemée
26,165 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « circonstanciel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | circonstanciel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #73,833 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « circonstanciel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
circonstanciel is uncommon French at frequency #73,833 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for circonstanciel in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is circonstanciel, spelled C-I-R-C-O-N-S-T-A-N-C-I-E-L.
Definition
- 1Qui indique une circonstance de l’action ou de l’état marqué par le verbe.
- 2Qui dépend des circonstances.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how circonstanciel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Propositions circonstancielles.
Ce sentiment serait-il propre à madame Kirry, ou expressif d’un malaise circonstanciel ?
This word in other languages
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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