figuring
/ˈfɪɡ.ə.ɹɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.69 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Alternative figurings may be available for interpreting the everyday, and alternative ways of figuring systems of privilege may be developed in contestations over social arrangements."
- "By my figuring, he couldn't have been much over forty, but sagging, bleached-out skin and a gray to balding head made him look sixty."
- "We must remember, however, that all these figurings are written with reference to the tonic signature."
- "These webbings are made in innumerable fine patternings, with silk mixtures in the design, in narrow stripings and small figurings."
- "Yet when we examine how Mendes's film figures the behind, as it were, behind the father, when we look closely at the film's figurings of anality in the father/son relation, we do not see an insistence that traces of a radical Otherness emerge in figurings of archaic relations and in turn challenge problematic, idealized claims that relations between men can transcend Symbolic mediation."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɪɡ.ə.ɹɪŋ/
- British English: /ˈfɪɡ.ə.ɹɪŋ/