figurer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,161
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
figurer is aFrenchverb. It means: Représenter par le dessin, par la peinture, par la sculpture, etc. Pronounced \fi.ɡy.ʁe\. Often confused with figures and filtrer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | figurer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fi.ɡy.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for figurer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fi.ɡy.ʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,161 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for figurer, with forms such as "ffigurer", "fgiurer", and "figgurer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "figures", "filtrer", "figurez", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is figurer, spelled F-I-G-U-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Représenter par le dessin, par la peinture, par la sculpture, etc.
- 2Donner l'apparence d'une chose
- 3Représenter par un symbole.
- 4Représenter des personnages accessoires et ordinairement muets.
- 5Ne remplir qu'un rôle insignifiant.
- 6Faire figure.
- 7Paraître ; se trouver ; être.
- 8Prendre sa forme.
- 9Se représenter dans l’imagination ; s’imaginer.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffigurer,fgiurer,figgurer,figruer,figuerr,figurerr,figurre,figurrer,fiugrer,ifgurer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for figurer
Misspelling Variants of "figurer"
Frequency rank: #10,161 in French
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