finale
\fi.nal\
The verdict
“finale” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #876. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #876
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie opposant les deux derniers concurrents restant en lice, dans les tournois par élimination.
Corpus desk
Index FR-finale · finale · French
finale · rank #876 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #876
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fera
Nearest frequency peer: fera (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « finale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- faits
faits
99,128 corpus weight
- faute
faute
99,127 corpus weight
- fera
fera
99,126 corpus weight
- finale
finale
99,125 corpus weight
- heureux
heureux
99,124 corpus weight
- impossible
impossible
99,123 corpus weight
What this shows « finale » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | finale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.nal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « finale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around finale (IPA \fi.nal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #876 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for finale, with forms such as "ffinale", "fianle", and "finael". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fine", "finie", "fiole", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is finale, spelled F-I-N-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Partie opposant les deux derniers concurrents restant en lice, dans les tournois par élimination.
- 2Moment de la partie où la menace d’un mat est faible et où les rois participent à la lutte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how finale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gaby Irvoas confiait il y a quelques jours : « Cette saison s'est fort bien terminée pour nos jeunes savateuses et savateurs. Depuis plusieurs années, l'école de savate de la MJC présente des compétiteurs et compétitrices jusqu'en finale du championnat de France.
En raison de l’alerte rouge canicule du lundi 18 juillet, l’arrêt préfectoral interdisant la pratique du sport en intérieur a amené Gérald Kerscaven, juge-arbitre, à décaler les finales du samedi 23 au dimanche 24 juillet.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffinale
- fianle
- finael
- finalle
- finlae
- finnale
- fniale
- ifnale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of finale - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).