finesses
\fi.nɛs\
The verdict
“finesses” is uncommon French (frequency #95,911 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,911
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de finesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-finesses · finesses · French
finesses · rank #95,911 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,911
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH finan
Nearest frequency peer: finan (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « finesses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Figueras
Figueras
4,093 corpus weight
- finan
finan
4,091 corpus weight
- finesses
finesses
4,090 corpus weight
- fisa
fisa
4,089 corpus weight
- florus
florus
4,088 corpus weight
- fluet
fluet
4,087 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « finesses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | finesses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.nɛs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,911 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « finesses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
finesses is uncommon French at frequency #95,911 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fi.nɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de finesse.".
finesses has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 finesses, spelled F-I-N-E-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de finesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how finesses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Non sans ironie, Boulez a tour à tour tenté de « dégalliciser » Debussy, dont il a profondément renouvelé la vision, et de « déteutoniser » Webern, en accélérant les tempi et en travaillant sur les transitions, la mise en valeur des silences, les finesses d’articulation…
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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