fin de semaine

/\fɛ̃ d‿sə.mɛn\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

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fin de semaine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Les deux derniers jours de la semaine de travail : jeudi et vendredi ou le dernier jour de la semaine : vendredi. (Prononcé \fɛ̃ dla smɛn\ (fin de la semaine) au Canada.) Pronounced \fɛ̃ d‿sə.mɛn\.

Key facts for fin de semaine
PropertyValue
Headwordfin de semaine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fɛ̃ d‿sə.mɛn\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

fin de semaine is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for fin de semaine is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛ̃ d‿sə.mɛn\. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for fin de semaine in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 semaine, spelled F-I-N- -D-E- -S-E-M-A-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Les deux derniers jours de la semaine de travail : jeudi et vendredi ou le dernier jour de la semaine : vendredi. (Prononcé \fɛ̃ dla smɛn\ (fin de la semaine) au Canada.)
  2. 2
    Ensemble de deux jours, généralement chômés, que constituent le samedi et le dimanche. (Prononcé \fɛ̃ dsə.mɛn\ au Québec.)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fin de semaine"?
"fin de semaine" is spelled F-I-N- -D-E- -S-E-M-A-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fɛ̃ d‿sə.mɛn\.
What does "fin de semaine" mean?
As a noun, "fin de semaine" means: Les deux derniers jours de la semaine de travail : jeudi et vendredi ou le dernier jour de la semaine : vendredi. (Prononcé \fɛ̃ dla smɛn\ (fin de la semaine) au Canada.)
How do you pronounce "fin de semaine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fin de semaine" is \fɛ̃ d‿sə.mɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fin de semaine" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.