finished
/ˈfɪnɪʃt/adjective, verb
finished is spelled F-I-N-I-S-H-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is finnished: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 37 of all searches for the word. Finished is an adjective meaning “Processed or perfected”.
How many letters and syllables are in finished?
| Letters | 8: F-I-N-I-S-H-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 87 times per million words; the 1,223rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, finnished, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
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); 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 finished?
Finished is spelled F-I-N-I-S-H-E-D. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 19 of the searches for finished 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 finished?
Finished appears 87 times per million words in written English, the 1,223rd 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 finished?
- /ˈfɪnɪʃt/
Finished has 2 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: En-us-finished.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with finished?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as finished.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: fiendish.
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 finished
- more finished comparative
- most finished superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does finished mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Processed or perfected.
He gave a very finished, but uninspired performance.
- 2
Completed; concluded; done.
I won't be finished until just before lunch.
- 3
informalDone for; doomed; used up.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of finish
He finished the cabinet with two more layers of polyurethane.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Finished in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fini, terminé |
| German | fertig |
| Portuguese | terminado, finalizado |
| Spanish | finido, acabado, fenecido |
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.