circulation
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,266
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
circulation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mouvement circulaire, en se référant aux planètes. Pronounced \siʁ.ky.la.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #2,266 in French word frequency. Often confused with circulations.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | circulation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \siʁ.ky.la.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #2,266 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for circulation is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \siʁ.ky.la.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,266 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for circulation, with forms such as "ccirculation", "cicrulation", and "circculation". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "circulations", 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 circulation, spelled C-I-R-C-U-L-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mouvement circulaire, en se référant aux planètes.
- 2Mouvement du sang qui part du cœur vers toutes les parties du corps au moyen des vaisseaux et revient vers le cœur après s’être oxygéné au niveau des poumons.
- 3Mouvement de la sève dans les plantes.
- 4Mouvement des fluides (eau, gaz, etc.) et, par extension également, les conduites dans lesquelles ils circulent.
- 5Modifications subies par les molécules constitutives de la cellule vivante.
- 6Action d’aller et de venir en utilisant les voies de communication.
- 7Flux des véhicules automobiles sur les routes et dans les rues.
- 8Ensemble des véhicules qui circulent.
- 9Voie de communication.
- 10Ensemble des échanges économiques et des transactions indispensables pour fournir des biens aux producteurs et pour livrer les produits aux consommateurs.
- 11Diffusion ; action de mettre à la connaissance du public un nouvel ouvrage, de nouvelles idées ou de nouveaux produits.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccirculation,cicrulation,circculation,circluation,circualtion,circulaiton,circulatino,circulationn,circulatoin,circulattion,circullation,circultaion,cirrculation,ciruclation,criculation,icrculation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for circulation
Misspelling Variants of "circulation"
Frequency rank: #2,266 in French
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