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Is circuit a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word circuit is a Scrabble US word. The word circuit is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is circuit a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word circuit is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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Is circuit a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word circuit is a Words With Friends word. The word circuit is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (1 found)

CIRCUIT,

6-letter words (2 found)

CITRIC,CRITIC,

5-letter words (1 found)

ICTIC,

4-letter words (4 found)

CRIT,CUIT,CURT,URIC,

3-letter words (9 found)

CIT,CRU,CUR,CUT,RIT,RUC,RUT,TIC,TUI,

2-letter words (4 found)

IT,TI,UR,UT,

You can make 21 words from circuit according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of circuit

circuit

Etymology

From Middle English circuit, from Old French circuit, from Latin circuitus (“a going round”), from circuire (“go round”), from circum (“around”) + ire. As a Chinese administrative division, a calque of Chinese 道 (dào) or 路 (lù).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɜː.kɪt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɝ.kɪt/
  • (Indian English) IPA(key): /ˈsɜː.kɪʈ/, /ˈsəɾ.kɪʈ/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kɪt

Noun

circuit (plural circuits)

  1. The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution
  2. The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.
  3. That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
  4. The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.
  6. (electricity) Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
  7. A regular or appointed trip from place to place as part of one's job
    • November 25 2016, Jane Cornwell in The Age, Bill Bailey: bird loving joker at the peak of his career
      Having cut his teeth on London's take-no-prisoners comedy circuit he can handle hecklers too, sometimes with musical accompaniment; recent shows see him armed with a veritable chamber orchestra's worth of instruments, all of which he plays.
  8. (law) The jurisdiction of certain judges within a state or country, whether itinerant or not.
  9. (historical) Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including:
    1. The counties at the fringes of the empire, usually with a non-Chinese population, from the Han to the Western Jin.
    2. The 10 or so major provinces of the empire from the Tang to the early Yuan.
    3. Major provincial divisions from the Yuan to early Republican China.
  10. (law) Abbreviation of circuit court.
  11. (Methodism) The basic grouping of local Methodist churches.
  12. By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.
  13. (motor racing) A track on which a race in held; a racetrack
    • November 13 2016, Formula 1
      Interlagos is the 24th track Hamilton has won at in F1, which is more than any other driver in history. The only circuit on the current calendar that Hamilton hasn’t won at is Baku, which only joined the schedule this year.
  14. (obsolete) circumlocution
  15. (Scientology) A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person.
  16. (graph theory) A closed path, without repeated vertices allowed.
  17. A chain of cinemas/movie theaters.

Synonyms

  • (path or distance around a space): periplus (naval)
  • (Imperial Chinese administrative divisions): dao; lu, route (Later Jin to Song); tao (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

circuit (third-person singular simple present circuits, present participle circuiting, simple past and past participle circuited)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To travel around.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin circuitus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [sirˈkujt]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [siɾˈkujt]

Noun

circuit m (plural circuits)

  1. circuit

Further reading

  • “circuit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “circuit”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “circuit” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “circuit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French circuit, from Old French circuit, from Latin circuitus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɪrˈkʋi/
  • Hyphenation: cir‧cuit
  • Rhymes: -i

Noun

circuit n (plural circuits, diminutive circuitje n)

  1. (sports) racetrack
    Synonym: racebaan
  2. (physics) electric circuit
    Synonym: stroomkring
  3. (figuratively) exclusive group of individuals, clique, circle
    Synonyms: kliek, kring

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: sirkuit

French

Etymology

From Latin circuitus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /siʁ.kɥi/
  • Homophone: circuits

Noun

circuit m (plural circuits)

  1. circuit
  2. tour

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “circuit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkir.ku.it/, [ˈkɪrkuɪt̪]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃir.ku.it/, [ˈt͡ʃirkuit̪]

Verb

circuit

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of circueō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French circuit and Latin circuitus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃir.kuˈit/

Noun

circuit n (plural circuite)

  1. circuit

Declension

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Source: wiktionary.org