circulaient
\siʁ.ky.lɛ\
The verdict
“circulaient” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,309. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,309
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe circuler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-circulaient · circulaient · French
circulaient · rank #36,309 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,309
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cinquièmes
Nearest frequency peer: cinquièmes (-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 « circulaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chick
chick
63,695 corpus weight
- Chinese
Chinese
63,694 corpus weight
- cinquièmes
cinquièmes
63,693 corpus weight
- circulaient
circulaient
63,692 corpus weight
- clac
clac
63,691 corpus weight
- clémente
clémente
63,690 corpus weight
What this shows « circulaient » 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 | circulaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \siʁ.ky.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #36,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « circulaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around circulaient (IPA \siʁ.ky.lɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #36,309 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe circuler.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for circulaient, with forms such as "ccirculaient", "cicrulaient", and "circculaient". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "circulent", "circulant", "circulait", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is circulaient, spelled C-I-R-C-U-L-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe circuler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how circulaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Diverses copies en circulaient un peu partout, ainsi reproduites dans les ouvrages de Lepoittevin-Janot, de Jules Leroux et de tant d’autres compilateurs.
Depuis, ils ne se quittaient plus. À tel point que la troupe bruissait des plus folles rumeurs à leur sujet. Des ragots circulaient même, des histoires rocambolesques.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccirculaient
- cicrulaient
- circculaient
- circluaient
- circualient
- circulaeint
- circulaiennt
- circulaientt
- circulaietn
- circulainet
- circuliaent
- circullaient
- cirrculaient
- ciruclaient
- criculaient
- icrculaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of circulaient - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).