finan
\ˈfi.nan\
The verdict
“finan” is uncommon French (frequency #95,910 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,910
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de finir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-finan · finan · French
finan · rank #95,910 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,910
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH finesses
Nearest frequency peer: finesses (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « finan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- figea
figea
4,094 corpus weight
- Figueras
Figueras
4,093 corpus weight
- finan
finan
4,091 corpus weight
- finesses
finesses
4,090 corpus weight
- fisa
fisa
4,089 corpus weight
- florus
florus
4,088 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « finan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | finan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈfi.nan\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « finan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
finan is uncommon French at frequency #95,910 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈfi.nan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for finan in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is finan, spelled F-I-N-A-N.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de finir.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de finir.
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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