figurant
\fi.ɡy.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“figurant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,871. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,871
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui au théâtre ou au cinéma remplit un rôle généralement muet et secondaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-figurant · figurant · French
figurant · rank #10,871 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,871
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fanny
Nearest frequency peer: fanny (-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 « figurant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Ernest
Ernest
89,133 corpus weight
- fanny
fanny
89,131 corpus weight
- figurant
figurant
89,130 corpus weight
- finisse
finisse
89,129 corpus weight
- Finistère
Finistère
89,128 corpus weight
- fire
fire
89,127 corpus weight
What this shows « figurant » 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 | figurant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.ɡy.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « figurant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around figurant (IPA \fi.ɡy.ʁɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,871 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for figurant, with forms such as "ffigurant", "fgiurant", and "figgurant". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "figurent", "figurine", "filtrant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is figurant, spelled F-I-G-U-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Personne qui au théâtre ou au cinéma remplit un rôle généralement muet et secondaire.
- 2Toute personne dont le rôle est effacé dans une réunion, dans une société.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how figurant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— […]... quand je pense que moi qui aimais tant à servir la messe, je suis figurant au Châtelet! — Et pourquoi, diable t'es-tu fait figurant ? — Pour gagner trente sous par soirée.
Trois heures après, le réalisateur appelle celui qu’il croit être un figurant et lui demande de jouer une courte scène avec l’actrice Gwyneth Paltrow, l’héroïne du film.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffigurant
- fgiurant
- figgurant
- figruant
- figuarnt
- figurannt
- figurantt
- figuratn
- figurnat
- figurrant
- fiugrant
- ifgurant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of figurant - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "figurant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).