fins
/fɪnz/
"fins" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fins” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #18,079. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,079
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of fin
Corpus desk
Index EN-fins · fins · English
fins · rank #18,079 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,079
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH feudal
Nearest frequency peer: feudal (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “fins”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- felicity
felicity
81,925 corpus weight
- Fernandez
Fernandez
81,924 corpus weight
- feudal
feudal
81,923 corpus weight
- fins
fins
81,922 corpus weight
- flattened
flattened
81,921 corpus weight
- fleece
fleece
81,920 corpus weight
What this shows “fins” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fins |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fɪnz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #18,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “fins”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around fins (IPA /fɪnz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,079 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of fin".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for fins, with forms such as "ffins", "finss", and "fisn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FS", "FN", "fun", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is fins, spelled F-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1plural of fin
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffins
- finss
- fisn
- fnis
- ifns
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fins - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fins", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).