figure de rhétorique
\fi.ɡyʁ də ʁe.tɔ.ʁik\
The verdict
“figure de rhétorique” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Forme particulière de langage qu’on emploie pour donner plus de vivacité, plus de relief à l’expression de la pensée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | figure de rhétorique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.ɡyʁ də ʁe.tɔ.ʁik\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “figure de rhétorique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for figure de rhétorique is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fi.ɡyʁ də ʁe.tɔ.ʁik\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Forme particulière de langage qu’on emploie pour donner plus de vivacité, plus de relief à l’expression de la pensée.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for figure de rhétorique, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is figure de rhétorique, spelled F-I-G-U-R-E- -D-E- -R-H-É-T-O-R-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Forme particulière de langage qu’on emploie pour donner plus de vivacité, plus de relief à l’expression de la pensée.
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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.
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Using “figure de rhétorique”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-I-G-U-R-E- -D-E- -R-H-É-T-O-R-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fi.ɡyʁ də ʁe.tɔ.ʁik\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.