finales

\fi.nal\

/\fi.nal\/ adj

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The verdict

“finales” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,396. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,396
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
16
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de final.

Corpus desk

Index FR-finales · finales · French

finales · rank #6,396 · 10 variants · 16 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,396
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH filet

Nearest frequency peer: filet (-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 « finales »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « finales » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

finales vs fines
71% similar
finales vs finies
71% similar
finales vs Finley
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for finales
PropertyValue
Headwordfinales
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\fi.nal\
Letters7
Frequency rank#6,396
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « finales »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.finalesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « filet » (#6,395), « fraîche » (#6,397), « extrémité » (#6,394). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « finales » est au #6,396. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around finales (IPA \fi.nal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,396 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de final.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for finales, with forms such as "ffinales", "fianles", and "finaels". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "fines", "finies", "Finley", 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 explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is finales, spelled F-I-N-A-L-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin pluriel de final.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how finales appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La notarique (notarika) opère par manipulation des initiales, parfois des lettres finales.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ffinales
  • fianles
  • finaels
  • finaless
  • finalles
  • finalse
  • finlaes
  • finnales
  • fniales
  • ifnales

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of finales - 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.

ffinales1fianles2finaels2finaless1finalles1finalse2finlaes2finnales1
Edit distance from "finales"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "finales"?
"finales" is spelled F-I-N-A-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \fi.nal\.
What does "finales" mean?
As an adjective, "finales" means: Féminin pluriel de final.
What words are commonly confused with "finales"?
"finales" is commonly confused with "fines", "finies", "Finley". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "finales"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "finales" is \fi.nal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "finales" come from?
"finales" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "finales", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list