fig
\fiɡ\
The verdict
“fig” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,879) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,879
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Figurine, pion représentant un personnage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fig · fig · French
fig · rank #16,879 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,879
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH ferroviaires
Nearest frequency peer: ferroviaires (-1 rank slots)
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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « fig »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- faucon
faucon
83,125 corpus weight
- fauteuils
fauteuils
83,124 corpus weight
- ferroviaires
ferroviaires
83,123 corpus weight
- fig
fig
83,122 corpus weight
- fis
fis
83,121 corpus weight
- fitness
fitness
83,120 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « fig » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fig |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fiɡ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,879 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « fig »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fig is neighbouring look-alikes ("FN", "fo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \fiɡ\. Frequency #16,879 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Figurine, pion représentant un personnage.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fig, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FN", "fo", "fm", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fig, spelled F-I-G.
Definition
- 1Figurine, pion représentant un personnage.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).