figurante

\fi.ɡy.ʁɑ̃t\

/\fi.ɡy.ʁɑ̃t\/ noun

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The verdict

“figurante” is uncommon French (frequency #70,650 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,650
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnage féminin de théâtre ou de cinéma qui remplit un rôle généralement muet et secondaire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-figurante · figurante · French

figurante · rank #70,650 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #70,650
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH fictionnel

Nearest frequency peer: fictionnel (-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 « figurante »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « figurante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for figurante
PropertyValue
Headwordfigurante
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fi.ɡy.ʁɑ̃t\
Letters9
Frequency rank#70,650
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « figurante » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.figurantetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « fictionnel » (#70,649), « filial » (#70,651), « Fichte » (#70,648). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « figurante » est au #70,650. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

figurante is uncommon French at frequency #70,650 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fi.ɡy.ʁɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for figurante, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is figurante, spelled F-I-G-U-R-A-N-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personnage féminin de théâtre ou de cinéma qui remplit un rôle généralement muet et secondaire.
  2. 2
    Toute femme dont le rôle est effacé dans une réunion, dans une société.
  3. 3
    Personnage de moindre envergure.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how figurante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. C’est M. Lefèvre, l’ancien acteur des Variétés, qui a fait éclore un jour cette phrase dans la bouche de mademoiselle Juliette, une figurante laide et rousse qu’Odry, par antiphrase, appelait Joliette.
  2. «La réalité, c’est une figurante des fois bien inutile. Les statistiques de criminalité à Washington étaient déjà en baisse notoire», a conclu M. Lavoie.

This word in other languages

extra(English)Statistin(Deutsch)figurante(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "figurante"?
"figurante" is spelled F-I-G-U-R-A-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fi.ɡy.ʁɑ̃t\.
What does "figurante" mean?
As a noun, "figurante" means: Personnage féminin de théâtre ou de cinéma qui remplit un rôle généralement muet et secondaire.
How do you pronounce "figurante"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "figurante" is \fi.ɡy.ʁɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "figurante" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "figurante", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list