circulait
\siʁ.ky.lɛ\
The verdict
“circulait” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,466. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,466
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe circuler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-circulait · circulait · French
circulait · rank #34,466 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,466
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Châtel
Nearest frequency peer: Châtel (-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 « circulait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chihuahua
chihuahua
65,538 corpus weight
- Châtel
Châtel
65,536 corpus weight
- circulait
circulait
65,535 corpus weight
- cities
cities
65,534 corpus weight
- clonage
clonage
65,533 corpus weight
- coe
coe
65,532 corpus weight
What this shows « circulait » 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 | circulait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \siʁ.ky.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #34,466 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « circulait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around circulait (IPA \siʁ.ky.lɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #34,466 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe circuler.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for circulait, with forms such as "ccirculait", "cicrulait", and "circculait". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "circulent", "circulant", "circuit", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is circulait, spelled C-I-R-C-U-L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe circuler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how circulait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Heureusement, quelqu’un avait eu la riche idée d’ouvrir une fenêtre dans le hall, il y avait une petite brise bien soulageante qui circulait.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccirculait
- cicrulait
- circculait
- circluait
- circualit
- circulaitt
- circulati
- circuliat
- circullait
- cirrculait
- ciruclait
- criculait
- icrculait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of circulait - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).