finir
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,291
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
finir is aFrenchverb. It means: Achever, terminer, arriver à échéance, cesser, finaliser. Pronounced \fi.niʁ\. It ranks #1,291 in French word frequency. Often confused with fins and fuir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | finir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fi.niʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,291 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for finir is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fi.niʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,291 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for finir, with forms such as "ffinir", "fiinr", and "finirr". 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, "fins", "fuir", "finn", 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 finir, spelled F-I-N-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Achever, terminer, arriver à échéance, cesser, finaliser.
- 2Exécuter avec un soin minutieux.
- 3Être la fin ou le terme de quelque chose.
- 4Terminer l’action indiquée par le verbe à l’infinitif.
- 5Cesser des choses trop longues, ennuyeuses, désagréables ou intolérables.
- 6Se terminer ou être terminé.
- 7Prendre fin, arriver à son terme.
- 8Avoir une certaine fin ou une certaine issue ; arriver à un certain résultat.
- 9Mourir.
- 10Suivi de « par » et d’un infinitif il indique que l’action est le terme ou le résultat de ce qui a précédé. → voir finir par
- 11Assouvir un désir jusqu’à l’épuisement et l’oubli.
- 12Jouir, avoir un orgasme jusqu’à atteindre la période réfractaire, éjaculer.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffinir,fiinr,finirr,finnir,finri,fniir,ifnir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for finir
Misspelling Variants of "finir"
Frequency rank: #1,291 in French
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Nearby French words
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