Finn
/ˈfɪn/noun
Finn is spelled F-I-N-N: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 6.0 times per million words in written English, the 9,878th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Finn means “A national of Finland” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Finn is Finns.
How many letters and syllables are in Finn?
| Letters | 4: F-I-N-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.0 times per million words; the 9,878th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like |
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 Finn?
Finn appears 6.0 times per million words in written English, the 9,878th 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 Finn?
- /ˈfɪn/
Finn has one syllable (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-Finn.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with Finn
Sounds like: fin (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of Finn
- Finns plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does Finn mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A national of Finland.
- 2
A person of ethnic Finnish (Suomi) ancestry; a non-Swedish, non-Sami Finlander.
- 3
A member of any Finnic nationality, such as (more narrowly) a Baltic Finn such as a Karelian or Estonian, or (more broadly) a Volga Finn or Perm Finn.
- 4
A male given name from Old Norse.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Finn in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | Finnois, Finnoise , Finlandais, Finlandaise |
| German | Finne, Finnin , Finnländer, Finnländerin |
| Portuguese | fino , finlandês, finlandesa |
| Spanish | finlandés, finlandesa |
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 Finn come from?
From Old English Finnas (“the Sami”) (plural), from Old Norse finnr (“a hunter-gatherer”), from Proto-Germanic *finnaz (which see for more). Possibly originally meaning a ‘finder’ of food, referring to nomadic hunter-gatherers, particularly the Sami.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).