Finnic
adjective
Finnic is an adjective meaning “Of the branch of the Uralic language family that includes Finnish, Estonian, Karelian, Veps, Livonian, Ingrian and Votic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-N-N-I-C, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Finnic mean?
adjective
- 1
Of the branch of the Uralic language family that includes Finnish, Estonian, Karelian, Veps, Livonian, Ingrian and Votic.
- 2
datedOf the hypothetical Finno-Volgaic subgrouping of the Uralic languages that includes the Baltic-Finnic, Sami, Mordvinic and Mari languages.
- 3
datedOf the hypothetical Finno-Permic subgrouping of the Uralic languages that includes the Finno-Volgaic and Permic languages.
- 4
rareFinnish.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Finnic?
Finnic appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th 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).
Finnic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pertaining to the Finnic (Baltic-Finnic) group of languages:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fennique |
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 Finnic come from?
From Finn + -ic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).