figurait
\fi.ɡy.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“figurait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,019. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,019
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de figurer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-figurait · figurait · French
figurait · rank #19,019 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,019
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Ferguson
Nearest frequency peer: Ferguson (-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 « figurait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fabuleuse
fabuleuse
80,985 corpus weight
- fanfare
fanfare
80,984 corpus weight
- Ferguson
Ferguson
80,983 corpus weight
- figurait
figurait
80,982 corpus weight
- filmée
filmée
80,981 corpus weight
- finissant
finissant
80,980 corpus weight
What this shows « figurait » 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 | figurait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fi.ɡy.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,019 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « figurait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around figurait (IPA \fi.ɡy.ʁɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,019 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de figurer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for figurait, with forms such as "ffigurait", "fgiurait", and "figgurait". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "figurent", "figurant", "finirait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is figurait, spelled F-I-G-U-R-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de figurer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how figurait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il apparaissait notamment dans la Gazette de Hull et figurait en haut de la seconde page dans un numéro de cette feuille modeste que le Mary Queen, trois-mâts-barque chargé de charbon, apporta le 1ᵉʳ novembre à Rotterdam.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffigurait
- fgiurait
- figgurait
- figruait
- figuarit
- figuraitt
- figurati
- figuriat
- figurrait
- fiugrait
- ifgurait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of figurait - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).