fin de partie
\fɛ̃ də paʁ.ti\
The verdict
“fin de partie” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Phase finale d’une partie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fin de partie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛ̃ də paʁ.ti\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fin de partie” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fin de partie is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛ̃ də paʁ.ti\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for fin de partie in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French 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 French form is fin de partie, spelled F-I-N- -D-E- -P-A-R-T-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Phase finale d’une partie.
- 2Fin, conclusion, dénouement.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “fin de partie”
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- The one correct French spelling is F-I-N- -D-E- -P-A-R-T-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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