full-figured

adj

"full-figured" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“full-figured” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
12
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fat; plump.

Corpus desk

Index EN-full-figured · full-figured · English

full-figured · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "F" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

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.

Key facts for full-figured
PropertyValue
Headwordfull-figured
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “full-figured” in English

full-figuredsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

full-figured is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fat; plump.".

Zero misspellings are on record for full-figured in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is full-figured, spelled F-U-L-L---F-I-G-U-R-E-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fat; plump.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how full-figured appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. I can honestly say that my attitude to my body became markedly better when I accepted that I was fat. . . . Often more offensive terms are used. Full-figured, big-boned, voluptuous, curvaceous, and my least favourite: "real woman".

Synonyms

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "full-figured"?
"full-figured" is spelled F-U-L-L---F-I-G-U-R-E-D.
What does "full-figured" mean?
As an adjective, "full-figured" means: Fat; plump.
What language does "full-figured" come from?
"full-figured" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list