How to spell figure

hear itfig·ure/'fɪɡjər/verbSilent and tricky

What it means: To solve or understand something.

In a sentence: Can you figure out the answer to the riddle?

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as figuer or figer.

Same family: figures, numeral, digit, number, calculation. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Figure comes from Latin “figura,” meaning “shape” or “form.” Over time its meaning expanded from physical shapes to written numbers and data in charts and tables.

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