fino
"fino" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fino” is uncommon English (frequency #63,616 among 18,613 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,616
- frequency rank, English
- 18,613
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The driest and palest type of traditional sherry.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fino |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fino” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
fino is uncommon English at frequency #63,616 among 18,613 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The driest and palest type of traditional sherry.".
fino doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Spanish fino (“fine”). Doublet of fine. The correct English form is fino, spelled F-I-N-O.
Definition
- 1The driest and palest type of traditional sherry.
Etymology
From Spanish fino (“fine”). Doublet of fine.
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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Using “fino”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-I-N-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.