circuit

\siʁ.kɥi\

/\siʁ.kɥi\/ noun

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The verdict

“circuit” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,706. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,706
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pourtour d’un lieu déterminé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-circuit · circuit · French

circuit · rank #2,706 · 10 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,706
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH bases

Nearest frequency peer: bases (-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 « circuit »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « circuit » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

circuit vs circus
71% similar
circuit vs circule
71% similar
circuit vs circuits
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « circuit »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).circuitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bases » (#2,705), « courir » (#2,707), « autorisation » (#2,704). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « circuit » est au #2,706. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around circuit (IPA \siʁ.kɥi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,706 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for circuit, with forms such as "ccircuit", "cicruit", and "circcuit". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is circuit, spelled C-I-R-C-U-I-T.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how circuit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En remplaçant les moulins à vent par les moulins à vapeur, on acheva en trente-neuf mois la grande entreprise du dessèchement du lac de Haarlem, qui avait quarante-quatre kilomètres de circuit.
  2. Puis, à certains tournants, quelques quinquets rougeoyaient indiquant le circuit que l’on décrivait dans ces atermoiements de lumière et d’ombre.

Synonyms

boucledéplacementitinéraire

This word in other languages

circuit(English)Rundgang(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccircuit
  • cicruit
  • circcuit
  • circiut
  • circuitt
  • circuti
  • cirrcuit
  • cirucit
  • cricuit
  • icrcuit

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of circuit - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ccircuit1cicruit2circcuit1circiut2circuitt1circuti2cirrcuit1cirucit2
Edit distance from "circuit"

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.

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?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "circuit", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list