# Finn

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈfɪn/ · frequency rank #9,895

## Definitions
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.

## Etymology
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.

## Easily confused with
- **FN** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/finn-vs-fn)
- **fun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/finn-vs-fun)
- **fit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/finn-vs-fit)
- **fix** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/finn-vs-fix)
- **fir** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/finn-vs-fir)
- **FNC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/finn-vs-fnc)
- **FIS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/finn-vs-fis)
- **five** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/finn-vs-five)
- **fire** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/finn-vs-fire)
- **fish** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/finn-vs-fish)
- **fund** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/finn-vs-fund)
- **firm** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/finn-vs-firm)
- **fits** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/finn-vs-fits)
- **fist** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/finn-vs-fist)
- **fond** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/finn-vs-fond)
- **font** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/finn-vs-font)
- **funk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/finn-vs-funk)
- **Fran** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/finn-vs-fran)
- **fins** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/finn-vs-fins)
- **fisk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/finn-vs-fisk)

## Common misspellings (3)
`ffinn`, `fnin`, `ifnn`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/finn