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"figure" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often reckon (6 letters).
Definitions
Number, shape, or person.
Word origin
From Middle English figure, borrowed from Old French figure, from Latin figūra (“form, shape, form of a word, a figure of speech, Late Latin a sketch, drawing”), from fingō (“to form, shape, mold, fashion”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold, shape, form, knead”). Cognate with Ancient Greek τεῖχος (teîkhos), Sanskrit देग्धि (dégdhi), Old English dāg (“dough”). More at dough. Doublet of figura.
Used in a sentence
“a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble”
“a coin that bears the figure of an angel”
“Ever since I was a young’n and my dad gave me a Godzilla figure, I’ve been a huge fan of the big green lizard from the Land of the Rising Sun.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Number or shape”6 letters
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