figurément
\fi.ɡy.ʁe.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“figurément” is uncommon French (frequency #81,163 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,163
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière figurée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-figurement · figurément · French
figurément · rank #81,163 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,163
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fieffé
Nearest frequency peer: fieffé (-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 « figurément »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fertilisant
fertilisant
18,841 corpus weight
- feue
feue
18,840 corpus weight
- fieffé
fieffé
18,839 corpus weight
- figurément
figurément
18,838 corpus weight
- finot
finot
18,837 corpus weight
- fiscalistes
fiscalistes
18,836 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « figurément » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | figurément |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \fi.ɡy.ʁe.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « figurément » en français
Rare enough to double-check
figurément is uncommon French at frequency #81,163 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \fi.ɡy.ʁe.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D’une manière figurée.".
No misspelling variants are generated for figurément in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is figurément, spelled F-I-G-U-R-É-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière figurée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how figurément appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; ici où la chose s'accorde parfaitement bien au nom de pain , c'est une impertinence toute manifeste de le prendre figurément; & qu'au contraire là où ce mesme sujet est nommé le corps du Christ, la chose ne répondant nullement à ce nom, il le saut prendre figurément & tenir pour tout certain, qu'elle pst ainsi nommée improprement.
En cette espèce de va-et-vient, figure sonore de son bâti rythmique, mouvement apparent de son schème, elle trouve à se comprendre figurément : semblable à la mer qui éclate en son rivage, seuil où ces deux choses, terre et mer, s'ajointent par cette porte bruyante […].
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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