find
/ˈfaɪ̯nd/verb, noun
find is spelled F-I-N-D. The wrong spelling people search most is fidn: about 140 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 130 of all searches for the word. Find is a verb meaning “To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon”.
How many letters and syllables are in find?
| Letters | 4: F-I-N-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 575 times per million words; the 170th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, fidn, about 140 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell find?
Find is spelled F-I-N-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 130 of the searches for find in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is find?
Find appears 575 times per million words in written English, the 170th 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 find?
- British /ˈfɑjnd/
- US /ˈfaɪ̯nd/
- /ˈfa̝ːn(d)/
Find has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-find.ogg, En-uk-to_find.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with find?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as find from its last stressed vowel (/aɪnd/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of find
- finds present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- finding participle, present
- found past, participle, singular, he/she/it, plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does find mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
I found this shell on the beach.
- 2
To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
I found my car keys. They were under the couch.
- 3
To locate on behalf of another.
I found you a new place to live
- 4
To discover by study or experiment directed to an object or end.
Water is found to be a compound substance.
- 5
To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
to find leisure; to find means
- 6
To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
Looks like he found a new vehicle for himself!
- 7
To meet with; to receive.
The proposal found little support within the government.
- 8
To point out.
He kept finding faults with my work.
noun
- 1
Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
- 2
The act of finding.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Find in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | trouver , trouvaille |
| German | finden , Fund , aufdecken , Finden |
| Portuguese | achar, encontrar , achado , encontro , determinar |
| Spanish | encontrar, hallar, trovar , hallazgo |
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 find come from?
From Middle English finden, from Old English findan, from Proto-West Germanic *finþan, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną, a secondary verb from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass; path bridge”). See also West Frisian fine, Low German finden, Dutch vinden, German finden, Danish finde, Norwegian Bokmål finne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish finna; also English path, Old Irish étain (“I find”), áitt (“place”), Latin pōns (“bridge”), Ancient Greek πόντος (póntos, “sea”), Old Armenian հուն (hun, “ford”), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬧𐬙𐬃 (paṇtā̊), Sanskrit पथ (pathá, “path”), Proto-Slavic *pǫtь.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).