figurer

Other forms of figurer

plural

figurers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about figurer

What does figurer mean?

figurer means "an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)".

How many syllables are in figurer?

figurer has 3 syllables: fi-gu-rer. The stress falls on "fi".

What is another word for figurer?

Close synonyms include calculator, reckoner, estimator, computer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is figurer a common word?

figurer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.