circulaire
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,958
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
circulaire is anFrenchadj. It means: Relatif au cercle. Pronounced \siʁ.ky.lɛʁ\. It ranks #5,958 in French word frequency. Often confused with circulait and circulaires.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | circulaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \siʁ.ky.lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #5,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for circulaire is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \siʁ.ky.lɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,958 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for circulaire, with forms such as "ccirculaire", "cicrulaire", and "circculaire". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "circulait", "circulaires", "cartulaire", 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 circulaire, spelled C-I-R-C-U-L-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Relatif au cercle.
- 2En forme de cercle ou, par extension, de disque.
- 3Qui embrasse l'alentour dans son entier.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccirculaire,cicrulaire,circculaire,circluaire,circualire,circulaier,circulairre,circularie,circuliare,circullaire,cirrculaire,ciruclaire,criculaire,icrculaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for circulaire
Misspelling Variants of "circulaire"
Frequency rank: #5,958 in French
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