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"circumference" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often girth (5 letters).
Definitions
the size of something as given by the distance around it
Word origin
From Latin circumferentia, from circum (“around”) + ferō (“to carry”). Displaced native Old English ymbgang.
Used in a sentence
“Nor is the vigour of this great body included only in itself, or circumferenced by its surface”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Around measure”13 letters
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