circuler
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,797
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
circuler is aFrenchverb. It means: Se mouvoir circulairement. Se dit des choses que leur mouvement ramène au point de départ, et principalement du sang et de la sève. Pronounced \siʁ.ky.le\. It ranks #7,797 in French word frequency. Often confused with circulez and circle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | circuler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \siʁ.ky.le\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,797 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for circuler is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \siʁ.ky.le\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,797 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for circuler, with forms such as "ccirculer", "cicruler", and "circculer". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "circulez", "circle", "circule", and more, 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 circuler, spelled C-I-R-C-U-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se mouvoir circulairement. Se dit des choses que leur mouvement ramène au point de départ, et principalement du sang et de la sève.
- 2Se déplacer, en parlant de moyens de transport.
- 3Aller çà et là ; aller et venir.
- 4Passer, aller de main en main.
- 5Se propager, se répandre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccirculer,cicruler,circculer,circluer,circuelr,circulerr,circuller,circulre,cirrculer,cirucler,criculer,icrculer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for circuler
Misspelling Variants of "circuler"
Frequency rank: #7,797 in French
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