fine
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,919
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Terme utilisé communément dans l’imprimerie et par les typographes pour désigner une espace insécable, mais d'une largeur fixe non justifiable (en cas de justification des lignes complètes de parag... Pronounced \fin\. It ranks #3,919 in French word frequency. Often confused with FN and fit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fin\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fine is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fin\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,919 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for fine, with forms such as "ffine", "fien", and "finne". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FN", "fit", "fun", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is fine, spelled F-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Terme utilisé communément dans l’imprimerie et par les typographes pour désigner une espace insécable, mais d'une largeur fixe non justifiable (en cas de justification des lignes complètes de paragraphes entre les deux marges), et plus fine (entre un sixième et un quart de cadratin, selon les polices de caractères utilisées) que l’espace normale (un demi cadratin) séparant les mots ; la fine est utilisée soit en juxtaposition avec certains signes de ponctuation, soit aussi (dans les conventions typographiques françaises) comme séparateur de groupes de chiffres dans un nombre ou un numéro.
- 2Eau-de-vie de raisin, en particulier cognac, de qualité supérieure. Apocope de fine champagne.
- 3Fraction fine issue d’un concassage ou d’un broyage.
- 4Aphérèse de perle fine.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffine,fien,finne,fnie,ifne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "fine"
Frequency rank: #3,919 in French
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