finalist
noun
finalist is spelled F-I-N-A-L-I-S-T: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,005th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, finalist means “An adherent of finalism; someone who believes that a given process or situation is in its final state, with no further change possible” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of finalist is finalists.
How many letters and syllables are in finalist?
| Letters | 8: F-I-N-A-L-I-S-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.8 times per million words; the 16,005th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is finalist?
Finalist appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,005th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce finalist?
Finalist has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-finalist.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of finalist
- finalists plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does finalist mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An adherent of finalism; someone who believes that a given process or situation is in its final state, with no further change possible.
- 2
Someone who believes that natural processes (especially evolution) are tending towards some specific final state; a teleologist.
- 3
Somebody or something that appears in the final of a competition.
- 4
A university student taking their final examinations, or in the year of study when these are taken.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Finalist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense participant in final:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does finalist come from?
From final + -ist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).