Finte
[ˈfɪntə]
The verdict
“Finte” is uncommon German (frequency #67,215 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,215
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Handlung (oder Aussage), die etwas vortäuscht und dazu bestimmt ist, jemanden durch eine falsche Annahme zu etwas zu verleiten; die aber dennoch nicht als unlauter empfunden wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-finte · Finte · German
Finte · rank #67,215 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,215
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Finanzvorstand
Nearest frequency peer: Finanzvorstand (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Finte“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- finanziere
finanziere
32,790 corpus weight
- Finanzkraft
Finanzkraft
32,789 corpus weight
- Finanzvorst…
Finanzvorstand
32,788 corpus weight
- Finte
Finte
32,786 corpus weight
- Flaschenpost
Flaschenpost
32,784 corpus weight
- flinken
flinken
32,782 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Finte“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Finte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfɪntə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,215 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Finte“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Finte is uncommon German at frequency #67,215 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfɪntə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Finte, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Finte, spelled F-I-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Handlung (oder Aussage), die etwas vortäuscht und dazu bestimmt ist, jemanden durch eine falsche Annahme zu etwas zu verleiten; die aber dennoch nicht als unlauter empfunden wird
- 2Handlung (oder Aussage), die etwas vortäuscht und dazu bestimmt ist, jemanden durch eine falsche Annahme zu etwas zu verleiten; die aber dennoch nicht als unlauter empfunden wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Finte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Mir ist jede Finte recht, um dem globalen Blabla zu entrinnen.“
„Ich fragte mich, ob ich einer Finte aufgesessen war.“
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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