circulatoire
\siʁ.ky.la.twaʁ\
The verdict
“circulatoire” is uncommon French (frequency #51,358 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,358
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la circulation d'un fluide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-circulatoire · circulatoire · French
circulatoire · rank #51,358 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,358
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cirage
Nearest frequency peer: cirage (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « circulatoire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cin
cin
48,646 corpus weight
- cinglée
cinglée
48,645 corpus weight
- cirage
cirage
48,644 corpus weight
- circulatoire
circulatoire
48,643 corpus weight
- civilement
civilement
48,642 corpus weight
- clito
clito
48,641 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « circulatoire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | circulatoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \siʁ.ky.la.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #51,358 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « circulatoire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
circulatoire is uncommon French at frequency #51,358 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \siʁ.ky.la.twaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for circulatoire in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is circulatoire, spelled C-I-R-C-U-L-A-T-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la circulation d'un fluide.
- 2Qui a rapport à la circulation du sang.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how circulatoire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle crée des tensions en vertu d'un processus circulatoire que l'on pourrait appeler électro-filtration qui se répand en amont selon le courant phréatique.
Un des problèmes majeurs de la technique est que les vitesses circulatoires doivent être a priori connues pour éviter les phénomènes « d’aliasing » bien connus par les doppleristes.
This word in other languages
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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