circuit

/\siʁ.kɥi\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,706

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

circuit is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pourtour d’un lieu déterminé. Pronounced \siʁ.kɥi\. It ranks #2,706 in French word frequency. Often confused with circus and circule.

Key facts for circuit
PropertyValue
Headwordcircuit
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\siʁ.kɥi\
Letters7
Frequency rank#2,706
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of circuit in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for circuit is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \siʁ.kɥi\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,706 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for circuit, with forms such as "ccircuit", "cicruit", and "circcuit". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "circus", "circule", "circuits", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is circuit, spelled C-I-R-C-U-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pourtour d’un lieu déterminé.
  2. 2
    Chemin fixé d’avance que doivent parcourir tous les concurrents d’une course pour revenir au point de départ.
  3. 3
    Détour.
  4. 4
    Parcours organisé.
  5. 5
    Contour d’intégration qui contient tous les points critiques de la fonction que l’on intègre.
  6. 6
    Ensemble des corps parcourus par le courant électrique et qui doivent former avec la source d’électricité une chaîne continue.
  7. 7
    Connexion établie entre deux terminaux
  8. 8
    Abréviation de coup de circuit, permettant au frappeur de toucher les quatre bases et ainsi marquer un point, sans avoir à s’immobiliser à l’une d’elles.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccircuit,cicruit,circcuit,circiut,circuitt,circuti,cirrcuit,cirucit,cricuit,icrcuit

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for circuit

Misspelling Variants of "circuit"

ccircuit8cicruit7circcuit8circiut7circuitt8circuti7cirrcuit8cirucit7
Misspelling Variants of "circuit"

Frequency rank: #2,706 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "circuit"?
"circuit" is spelled C-I-R-C-U-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \siʁ.kɥi\.
What does "circuit" mean?
As a noun, "circuit" means: Pourtour d’un lieu déterminé.
What words are commonly confused with "circuit"?
"circuit" is commonly confused with "circus", "circule", "circuits". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "circuit"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "circuit" is \siʁ.kɥi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "circuit" come from?
"circuit" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.