figea
\fi.ʒa\
The verdict
“figea” is uncommon French (frequency #95,907 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,907
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de figer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-figea · figea · French
figea · rank #95,907 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,907
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH ferronnier
Nearest frequency peer: ferronnier (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « figea »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- favourite
favourite
4,098 corpus weight
- ferrite
ferrite
4,096 corpus weight
- ferronnier
ferronnier
4,095 corpus weight
- figea
figea
4,094 corpus weight
- Figueras
Figueras
4,093 corpus weight
- finan
finan
4,091 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « figea » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | figea |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fi.ʒa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « figea » en français
Rare enough to double-check
figea is uncommon French at frequency #95,907 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fi.ʒa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de figer.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for figea, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is figea, spelled F-I-G-E-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de figer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how figea appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La scène se figea un quart de seconde. Et puis il y eut un micro-court-circuit.
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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