figures

/\fi.ɡyʁ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,940

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

16

similar word pairs

figures is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de figure. Pronounced \fi.ɡyʁ\. It ranks #4,940 in French word frequency. Often confused with futures and filtres.

Key facts for figures
PropertyValue
Headwordfigures
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fi.ɡyʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#4,940
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of figures in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for figures is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fi.ɡyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,940 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de figure.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for figures, with forms such as "ffigures", "fgiures", and "figgures". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "futures", "filtres", "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 figures, spelled F-I-G-U-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de figure.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ffigures,fgiures,figgures,figrues,figuers,figuress,figurres,figurse,fiugres,ifgures

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for figures

Misspelling Variants of "figures"

ffigures8fgiures7figgures8figrues7figuers7figuress8figurres8figurse7
Misspelling Variants of "figures"

Frequency rank: #4,940 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "figures"?
"figures" is spelled F-I-G-U-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \fi.ɡyʁ\.
What does "figures" mean?
As a noun, "figures" means: Pluriel de figure.
What words are commonly confused with "figures"?
"figures" is commonly confused with "futures", "filtres", "figurez". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "figures"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "figures" is \fi.ɡyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "figures" come from?
"figures" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.