circuit
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | circuit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \siʁ.kɥi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Pourtour d’un lieu déterminé.
- 2Chemin fixé d’avance que doivent parcourir tous les concurrents d’une course pour revenir au point de départ.
- 3Détour.
- 4Parcours organisé.
- 5Contour d’intégration qui contient tous les points critiques de la fonction que l’on intègre.
- 6Ensemble des corps parcourus par le courant électrique et qui doivent former avec la source d’électricité une chaîne continue.
- 7Connexion établie entre deux terminaux
- 8Abréviation 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.
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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"
Frequency rank: #2,706 in French
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