finesse
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,006
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
finesse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Qualité de ce qui est fin, délié ou menu. Pronounced \fi.nɛs\. Often confused with finisse and fitness.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | finesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.nɛs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,006 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for finesse is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fi.nɛs\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,006 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for finesse, with forms such as "ffinesse", "fiensse", and "finese". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "finisse", "fitness", "funeste", 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 finesse, spelled F-I-N-E-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est fin, délié ou menu.
- 2Qualité ce qui a une forme délicate et agréable.
- 3Manière de peindre, de graver, de dessiner légère, délicate et gracieuse ; effet qui en résulte.
- 4Effets de touche, de ton, remarquables par leur légèreté, leur grâce, leur délicatesse.
- 5Délicatesse, en parlant des sens.
- 6Délicatesse de l’esprit, du goût, du jugement.
- 7Qualité des choses faites pour être appréciées par le goût et par la pénétration d’esprit.
- 8La chose même qui est difficile à sentir, à saisir, à pénétrer.
- 9La finesse d’esprit.
- 10Ruse ; artifice. Invention cousue de fil blanc, machination particulièrement habile ou ridicule. Mensonge.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffinesse,fiensse,finese,fineses,finnesse,finsese,fniesse,ifnesse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for finesse
Misspelling Variants of "finesse"
Frequency rank: #10,006 in French
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