préfigurer
\pʁe.fi.ɡy.ʁe\
The verdict
“préfigurer” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Figurer à l’avance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prefigurer · préfigurer · French
préfigurer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | préfigurer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁe.fi.ɡy.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « préfigurer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
préfigurer is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁe.fi.ɡy.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Figurer à l’avance.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for préfigurer in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 préfigurer, spelled P-R-É-F-I-G-U-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Figurer à l’avance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how préfigurer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je songeai que si j’adoptais durablement ce style de vie, je ne tarderais pas à devenir le gros chat préfiguré par Biscuit.
Le paranoïaque écoute l’autre d’une manière différente, distord la phrase, préfigure le sens, y découvre ce qu’il cherchait, à savoir qu’on l’accuse, lui, des fautes que l’accusateur a commises.
This word in other languages
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.