fingerpaint
noun, verb
fingerpaint is a noun meaning “A form of paint designed to be applied using the fingers, especially by children” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-N-G-E-R-P-A-I-N-T and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 69 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fingerpaint is fingerpaints.
What does fingerpaint mean?
noun
- 1
A form of paint designed to be applied using the fingers, especially by children.
verb
- 1
Alternative spelling of finger paint.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fingerpaint?
Fingerpaint 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).
Forms of fingerpaint
- fingerpaints plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- fingerpainting participle, present
- fingerpainted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fingerpaint?
Fingerpaint appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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).
Where does fingerpaint come from?
From finger + paint.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).