Figaro
\fi.ɡa.ʁo\
The verdict
“Figaro” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,759. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,759
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnage créé par Beaumarchais dans trois de ses pièces, et repris par Mozart dans un opéra.
Corpus desk
Index FR-figaro · Figaro · French
Figaro · rank #4,759 · 8 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,759
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fermée
Nearest frequency peer: fermée (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Figaro »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- familial
familial
95,245 corpus weight
- fermée
fermée
95,243 corpus weight
- Figaro
Figaro
95,242 corpus weight
- flash
flash
95,241 corpus weight
- futurs
futurs
95,240 corpus weight
- gain
gain
95,239 corpus weight
What this shows « Figaro » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Figaro |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fi.ɡa.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,759 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Figaro »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Figaro (IPA \fi.ɡa.ʁo\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #4,759 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Figaro, with forms such as "ffigaro", "fgiaro", and "fiagro". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "figer", "figuré", "faro", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Figaro, spelled F-I-G-A-R-O.
Definition
- 1Personnage créé par Beaumarchais dans trois de ses pièces, et repris par Mozart dans un opéra.
- 2Barbier ; coiffeur.
- 3Valet peu scrupuleux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Figaro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sous un chapeau cloche, deux simples mèches autour du visage (baptisées les « tanguettes » ) tentèrent un moment de laisser croire que les ciseaux du Figaro étaient bel et bien passés par là.
Et puis on a besoin encore, provisoirement, de ce Figaro qui sait si magnifiquement plonger de toutes les manières. D’abord pour les élections, car la cour tient à avoir au Parlement une majorité sûre ; pour cela le républicain, l’homme du peuple « éprouvé » sert de rabatteur sans pareil.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffigaro
- fgiaro
- fiagro
- figaor
- figarro
- figgaro
- figrao
- ifgaro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Figaro - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).