finement
\fin.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“finement” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,673. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,673
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avec finesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-finement · finement · French
finement · rank #14,673 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,673
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH financée
Nearest frequency peer: financée (-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 « finement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- event
event
85,331 corpus weight
- exerçant
exerçant
85,330 corpus weight
- financée
financée
85,329 corpus weight
- finement
finement
85,328 corpus weight
- fondant
fondant
85,327 corpus weight
- fontaineble…
fontainebleau
85,326 corpus weight
What this shows « finement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | finement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \fin.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,673 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « finement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around finement (IPA \fin.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #14,673 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Avec finesse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for finement, with forms such as "ffinement", "fienment", and "fineemnt". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "finirent", "fixement", "fondement", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is finement, spelled F-I-N-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Avec finesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how finement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Corselet transversal, arrondi et bordé latéralement, très-fortement ponctué sur les bords, plus lisse et finement ponctué au milieu, où il est marqué d'une ligne longitudinale : […].
L’involucre, cette collerette de bractées finement découpées qui entourent l’inflorescence chez certaines espèces, chez les ombellifères en particulier, ne constitue jamais, comme chez la nigelle de Damas, l’attrait principal de la plante.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffinement
- fienment
- fineemnt
- finemennt
- finementt
- finemetn
- finemment
- finemnet
- finmeent
- finnement
- fniement
- ifnement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of finement - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).