Figures out is a phrase used to describe the process of understanding something that is not immediately obvious. It can involve a variety of activities, such as deducing, decoding, unravelling, solving, reasoning, inferring, getting, and sussing out. Dopes (5 letters), UNRAVELS (8 letters), SOLVES (6 letters), DEDUCES (7 letters), DECODES (7 letters), reasons (7 letters), INFERS (6 letters), gets (4 letters), susses (5 letters), and gets wise to (10 letters) are all synonyms for the phrase figures out.