Figeac
\fi.ʒak\
The verdict
“Figeac” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,944. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,944
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Lot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-figeac · Figeac · French
Figeac · rank #43,944 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,944
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH filtrée
Nearest frequency peer: filtrée (+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 « Figeac »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fermière
fermière
56,060 corpus weight
- Figeac
Figeac
56,057 corpus weight
- filtrée
filtrée
56,056 corpus weight
- finissais
finissais
56,055 corpus weight
- flashbacks
flashbacks
56,054 corpus weight
- florales
florales
56,053 corpus weight
What this shows « Figeac » 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 | Figeac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fi.ʒak\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #43,944 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Figeac »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Figeac (IPA \fi.ʒak\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #43,944 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Lot.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Figeac, with forms such as "ffigeac", "fgieac", and "fiegac". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "figée", "figer", "figés", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Figeac, spelled F-I-G-E-A-C.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Lot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Figeac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Commune, agglos et départements se ruent sur l’occasion : plus de 4 000 projets sont engagés. Diagnostic thermique chez l’habitant en pays ajaccien, rénovation de piscine à Ambert (Puy-de-Dôme), études sur le grand éolien autour de Figeac (Lot), rénovation à Bondy (Seine-Saint-Denis) de la bibliothèque Denis-Diderot, etc.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffigeac
- fgieac
- fiegac
- figaec
- figeacc
- figeca
- figgeac
- ifgeac
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Figeac - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Figeac", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).