figurine

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for figurine is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /fɪɡ(j)əˈɹin/. Corpus data places it at rank #34,889 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A small carved or molded figure; a statuette.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for figurine, with forms such as "ffigurine", "fgiurine", and "figgurine". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "figuring", "figure", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French figurine, equivalent to figure + -ine. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is figurine, spelled F-I-G-U-R-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.