finissant
\fi.ni.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“finissant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,021. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,021
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se termine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-finissant · finissant · French
finissant · rank #19,021 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,021
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH filmée
Nearest frequency peer: filmée (-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 « finissant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Ferguson
Ferguson
80,983 corpus weight
- figurait
figurait
80,982 corpus weight
- filmée
filmée
80,981 corpus weight
- finissant
finissant
80,980 corpus weight
- folio
folio
80,979 corpus weight
- Forbes
Forbes
80,978 corpus weight
What this shows « finissant » 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 | finissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fi.ni.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « finissant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around finissant (IPA \fi.ni.sɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,021 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui se termine.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for finissant, with forms such as "ffinissant", "fiinssant", and "finisant". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "finissent", "finissons", "finissait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is finissant, spelled F-I-N-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui se termine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how finissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rien n’égale le charme mélancolique des longs hivers finissants, alors que des clartés semblent rôder continuellement au bord de l’horizon, et n’osent pas venir.
Tout était triste et grand et doux, dans le soir finissant.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffinissant
- fiinssant
- finisant
- finisasnt
- finissannt
- finissantt
- finissatn
- finissnat
- finnissant
- finsisant
- fniissant
- ifnissant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of finissant - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).