circonvolutions
\siʁ.kɔ̃.vɔ.ly.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“circonvolutions” is uncommon French (frequency #72,184 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,184
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de circonvolution.
Corpus desk
Index FR-circonvolutions · circonvolutions · French
circonvolutions · rank #72,184 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,184
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clain
Nearest frequency peer: clain (+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 « circonvolutions »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chus
chus
27,820 corpus weight
- cimon
cimon
27,819 corpus weight
- circonvolut…
circonvolutions
27,817 corpus weight
- clain
clain
27,816 corpus weight
- clameurs
clameurs
27,815 corpus weight
- clanique
clanique
27,814 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « circonvolutions » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | circonvolutions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \siʁ.kɔ̃.vɔ.ly.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #72,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « circonvolutions » en français
Rare enough to double-check
circonvolutions is uncommon French at frequency #72,184 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \siʁ.kɔ̃.vɔ.ly.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de circonvolution.".
circonvolutions has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is circonvolutions, spelled C-I-R-C-O-N-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de circonvolution.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how circonvolutions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les circonvolutions compactes étaient enveloppées de dure-mère, ornées d’un réseau de nerfs et alimentées par d’épaisses artères qui ressemblaient à des galeries dans du blanc-manger.
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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