circonstancielle
\siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sjɛl\
The verdict
“circonstancielle” is uncommon French (frequency #93,596 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,596
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de circonstanciel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-circonstancielle · circonstancielle · French
circonstancielle · rank #93,596 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,596
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chérissons
Nearest frequency peer: chérissons (-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 « circonstancielle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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chlorés
6,408 corpus weight
- chouannerie
chouannerie
6,407 corpus weight
- chérissons
chérissons
6,406 corpus weight
- circonstanc…
circonstancielle
6,405 corpus weight
- cistercienn…
cisterciennes
6,402 corpus weight
- civières
civières
6,401 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « circonstancielle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | circonstancielle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sjɛl\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Frequency rank | #93,596 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « circonstancielle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
circonstancielle is uncommon French at frequency #93,596 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \siʁ.kɔ̃s.tɑ̃.sjɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de circonstanciel.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for circonstancielle, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is circonstancielle, spelled C-I-R-C-O-N-S-T-A-N-C-I-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de circonstanciel.
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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