finiquito
The verdict
“finiquito” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #50,931 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #50,931
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Extinción de la deuda, liquidación.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | finiquito |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [finiˈkit̪o] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “finiquito” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for finiquito is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [finiˈkit̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #50,931 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for finiquito in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is finiquito, spelled F-I-N-I-Q-U-I-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Extinción de la deuda, liquidación.
- 2Documento y acto con el que se da por finalizada una relación comercial. en este se cierran las cuentas derivadas de la esta relación.
- 3Documento por el que se pone fin a la relación laboral existente entre el trabajador y el empresario. Con su firma, el empresario queda libre de abonar cantidad alguna al empleado, y este queda libre de la obligación de trabajar a las órdenes del primero.
Frequency rank: #50,931 in Spanish
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Using “finiquito”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is F-I-N-I-Q-U-I-T-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [finiˈkit̪o] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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