figurent
\fi.ɡyʁ\
The verdict
“figurent” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,193. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,193
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de figurer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-figurent · figurent · French
figurent · rank #6,193 · 12 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,193
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fichiers
Nearest frequency peer: fichiers (-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 « figurent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- essentielle
essentielle
93,810 corpus weight
- fichiers
fichiers
93,809 corpus weight
- figurent
figurent
93,808 corpus weight
- flic
flic
93,807 corpus weight
- general
general
93,806 corpus weight
- group
group
93,805 corpus weight
What this shows « figurent » 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 | figurent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fi.ɡyʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,193 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « figurent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around figurent (IPA \fi.ɡyʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,193 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 figurent, with forms such as "ffigurent", "fgiurent", and "figgurent". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "furent", "firent", "figures", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is figurent, spelled F-I-G-U-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de figurer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de figurer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how figurent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une méthode souvent utilisée pour « dédimensionnaliser » une équation consiste à prendre égales à l’unité toutes les constantes physiques qui y figurent, au prix, bien sûr, d’un changement d’unités.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffigurent
- fgiurent
- figgurent
- figruent
- figuernt
- figurennt
- figurentt
- figuretn
- figurnet
- figurrent
- fiugrent
- ifgurent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of figurent - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "figurent", 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).