finance
French, noun
finance is spelled F-I-N-A-N-C-E (7 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written French, the 3,908th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Finance is a French feminine noun meaning “finance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, financé is a different word: “past participle of financer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Argent comptant”.
What does finance mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefinance
verb
- 1
past participle of financer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Argent comptant. 2. Gestion de la fortune, des ressources pécuniaires d’une personne ou d'une entreprise. 3. Argent, ressources pécuniaires d'une personne physique ou morale. 4. Budget de l’État, ses ressources et ses dépenses.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of finance
- finances plural
- financée feminine
- financés masculine plural
- financées feminine plural
- phynance
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to finance
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is finance in French?
finance appears 19 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).