finances

\fi.nɑ̃s\

/\fi.nɑ̃s\/ noun

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The verdict

“finances” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,124. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,124
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de finance.

Corpus desk

Index FR-finances · finances · French

finances · rank #2,124 · 12 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,124
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH erreurs

Nearest frequency peer: erreurs (-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 « finances »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « finances » 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).

finances vs financier
78% similar
finances vs financiers
80% similar
finances vs fiancé
63% similar

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

Key facts for finances
PropertyValue
Headwordfinances
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fi.nɑ̃s\
Letters8
Frequency rank#2,124
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « finances »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « erreurs » (#2,123), « finit » (#2,125), « empêche » (#2,122). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « finances » est au #2,124. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around finances (IPA \fi.nɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,124 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de finance.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for finances, with forms such as "ffinances", "fiannces", and "finacnes". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "financier", "financiers", "fiancé", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 finances, spelled F-I-N-A-N-C-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de finance.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ffinances
  • fiannces
  • finacnes
  • financces
  • financess
  • financse
  • finanecs
  • finannces
  • finnaces
  • finnances
  • fniances
  • ifnances

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of finances - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ffinances1fiannces2finacnes2financces1financess1financse2finanecs2finannces1
Edit distance from "finances"

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 "finances"?
"finances" is spelled F-I-N-A-N-C-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \fi.nɑ̃s\.
What does "finances" mean?
As a noun, "finances" means: Pluriel de finance.
What words are commonly confused with "finances"?
"finances" is commonly confused with "financier", "financiers", "fiancé". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "finances"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "finances" is \fi.nɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "finances" come from?
"finances" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

inquiète#2,129contient#2,115messages#2,134aventure#2,112

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

réponses12 variantsquantité12 variantsvérifier12 variantsécriture12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list