finisses
\fi.nis\
The verdict
“finisses” is uncommon French (frequency #62,278 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,278
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de finir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-finisses · finisses · French
finisses · rank #62,278 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,278
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fifre
Nearest frequency peer: fifre (-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 « finisses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- feuillette
feuillette
37,727 corpus weight
- fif
fif
37,725 corpus weight
- fifre
fifre
37,724 corpus weight
- finisses
finisses
37,723 corpus weight
- fixons
fixons
37,721 corpus weight
- flamby
flamby
37,720 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « finisses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | finisses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fi.nis\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « finisses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
finisses is uncommon French at frequency #62,278 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fi.nis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for finisses in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is finisses, spelled F-I-N-I-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de finir.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du subjonctif de finir.
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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