# furnish

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈfɝnɪʃ/ · frequency rank #24,162

## Definitions
1. Material used to create an engineered product.

## Etymology
From Middle English furnysshen, from Old French furniss-, stem of certain parts of furnir, fornir (Modern French fournir), from Germanic, from Frankish *frumjan (“to complete, execute”), from Proto-Germanic *frumjaną (“to further, promote”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“front, forward”).
Cognate with Old High German frumjan (“to perform, provide”), Old High German fruma (“utility, gain”), Old English fremu (“profit, advantage”), Old English fremian (“to promote, perform”). More at frame, frim.

## Easily confused with
- **furnished** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/furnish-vs-furnished)
- **finish** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/finish-vs-furnish)
- **Finnish** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/finnish-vs-furnish)
- **Furness** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/furness-vs-furnish)

## Common misspellings (11)
`ffurnish`, `frunish`, `funrish`, `furinsh`, `furnihs`, `furnishh`, `furnissh`, `furnnish`, `furnsih`, `furrnish`, `ufrnish`

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