circulaire
\siʁ.ky.lɛʁ\
The verdict
“circulaire” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,958. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,958
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au cercle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-circulaire · circulaire · French
circulaire · rank #5,958 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,958
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH confirmation
Nearest frequency peer: confirmation (+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 « circulaire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- carburant
carburant
94,046 corpus weight
- certificat
certificat
94,045 corpus weight
- circulaire
circulaire
94,043 corpus weight
- confirmation
confirmation
94,042 corpus weight
- construite
construite
94,041 corpus weight
- continuité
continuité
94,040 corpus weight
What this shows « circulaire » 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 | circulaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \siʁ.ky.lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #5,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « circulaire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around circulaire (IPA \siʁ.ky.lɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,958 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for circulaire, with forms such as "ccirculaire", "cicrulaire", and "circculaire". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "circulait", "circulaires", "cartulaire", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is circulaire, spelled C-I-R-C-U-L-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif au cercle.
- 2En forme de cercle ou, par extension, de disque.
- 3Qui embrasse l'alentour dans son entier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how circulaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Forme circulaire. — Figure circulaire. — Ligne circulaire. — Mouvement circulaire. — Lettre circulaire.
L’ouvrier se sert d'une lame courte et tranchante, engagée dans un manche d’os, avec laquelle il pratique, au bas de l’arbre, une entaille circulaire et assez profonde pour arriver jusqu'à l’aubier.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccirculaire
- cicrulaire
- circculaire
- circluaire
- circualire
- circulaier
- circulairre
- circularie
- circuliare
- circullaire
- cirrculaire
- ciruclaire
- criculaire
- icrculaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of circulaire - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).