finito
\fi.ni.to\
The verdict
“finito” is uncommon French (frequency #80,211 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,211
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - C'est fini. C'est achevé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-finito · finito · French
finito · rank #80,211 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,211
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH filler
Nearest frequency peer: filler (-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 « finito »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- figurerait
figurerait
19,793 corpus weight
- filler
filler
19,791 corpus weight
- finito
finito
19,790 corpus weight
- flap
flap
19,789 corpus weight
- flashe
flashe
19,788 corpus weight
- flavonoïdes
flavonoïdes
19,787 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « finito » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | finito |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \fi.ni.to\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « finito » en français
Rare enough to double-check
finito is uncommon French at frequency #80,211 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \fi.ni.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "C'est fini. C'est achevé.".
No misspelling variants are generated for finito in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is finito, spelled F-I-N-I-T-O.
Definition
- 1C'est fini. C'est achevé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how finito appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Où est ta gymnaste ? J’ai entendu dire que tu sortais avec une médaillée olympique. — Finito, déclara-t-il en ouvrant les deux mains. Tu as envie de m’aider à panser mes plaies ?
… que quelqu’un qui parle de préférence nationale contre l’Europe, ce que vous venez de faire, en expliquant que donc le marché européen, finito, que, pareil sur des marchandises …
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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