figure d’avant
\fi.ɡyʁ d‿a.vɑ\
The verdict
“figure d’avant” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Figure de proue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-figure-d-avant · figure d’avant · French
figure d’avant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | figure d’avant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.ɡyʁ d‿a.vɑ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
figure d’avant is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fi.ɡyʁ d‿a.vɑ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Figure de proue.".
Zero misspellings are on record for figure d’avant in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is figure d’avant, spelled F-I-G-U-R-E- -D-’-A-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Figure de proue.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.