figura
\fi.ɡy.ʁa\
The verdict
“figura” is uncommon French (frequency #64,448 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,448
- 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 figurer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-figura · figura · French
figura · rank #64,448 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,448
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH ferrailleur
Nearest frequency peer: ferrailleur (-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 « figura »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fantasmée
fantasmée
35,557 corpus weight
- ferrailleur
ferrailleur
35,554 corpus weight
- figura
figura
35,553 corpus weight
- filée
filée
35,552 corpus weight
- flatteuses
flatteuses
35,550 corpus weight
- Florine
Florine
35,549 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « figura » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | figura |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fi.ɡy.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,448 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « figura » en français
Rare enough to double-check
figura is uncommon French at frequency #64,448 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fi.ɡy.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de figurer.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for figura, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is figura, spelled F-I-G-U-R-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de figurer.
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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