finis
/ˈfɪnɪs/
"finis" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“finis” is uncommon English (frequency #68,217 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,217
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of a book or other work: the end.
Corpus desk
Index EN-finis · finis · English
finis · rank #68,217 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,217
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH Fillon
Nearest frequency peer: Fillon (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “finis”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fCT
fCT
31,789 corpus weight
- fiercer
fiercer
31,786 corpus weight
- Fillon
Fillon
31,785 corpus weight
- finis
finis
31,784 corpus weight
- finna
finna
31,783 corpus weight
- finned
finned
31,782 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “finis” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | finis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfɪnɪs/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “finis” in English
Rare enough to double-check
finis is uncommon English at frequency #68,217 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈfɪnɪs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of a book or other work: the end.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for finis in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English finis, from Latin fīnis (“end; limit”). Doublet of fin, fine, and finish. The correct English form is finis, spelled F-I-N-I-S.
Definition
- 1Of a book or other work: the end.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how finis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He had gone through the work from the title-page to the finis at least forty times, and had just commenced it over again.
Highly providential was the appearance on the scene of Corny Kelleher when Stephen was blissfully unconscious that, but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh hour, the finis might have been that he might have been a candidate for the accident ward, […]
Etymology
From Middle English finis, from Latin fīnis (“end; limit”). Doublet of fin, fine, and finish.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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