circuits
\siʁ.kɥi\
The verdict
“circuits” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,596. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,596
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de circuit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-circuits · circuits · French
circuits · rank #6,596 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,596
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH civiles
Nearest frequency peer: civiles (+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 « circuits »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- certitude
certitude
93,408 corpus weight
- chasser
chasser
93,407 corpus weight
- circuits
circuits
93,405 corpus weight
- civiles
civiles
93,404 corpus weight
- costumes
costumes
93,403 corpus weight
- croyances
croyances
93,402 corpus weight
What this shows « circuits » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | circuits |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \siʁ.kɥi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,596 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « circuits »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around circuits (IPA \siʁ.kɥi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,596 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de circuit.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for circuits, with forms such as "ccircuits", "cicruits", and "circcuits". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "circus", "circuit", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is circuits, spelled C-I-R-C-U-I-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de circuit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how circuits appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chez toutes les créatures subhumaines, les agents mentaux sous la forme d’impulsions constantes sont ainsi employés au maintien de la chaleur et du magnétisme, de la radiation et de l’activité chimique dans les processus vitaux des circuits organiques, de manière à sédimentariser peu à peu les bases de l’intelligence.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccircuits
- cicruits
- circcuits
- circiuts
- circuist
- circuitss
- circuitts
- circutis
- cirrcuits
- cirucits
- cricuits
- icrcuits
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of circuits - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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