finitude
\fi.ni.tyd\
The verdict
“finitude” is uncommon French (frequency #54,590 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,590
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui n’est pas éternel, notamment en parlant de l’être humain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-finitude · finitude · French
finitude · rank #54,590 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,590
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH financeurs
Nearest frequency peer: financeurs (-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 « finitude »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ferrant
ferrant
45,414 corpus weight
- filmes
filmes
45,413 corpus weight
- financeurs
financeurs
45,412 corpus weight
- finitude
finitude
45,411 corpus weight
- Firth
Firth
45,410 corpus weight
- fla
fla
45,409 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « finitude » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | finitude |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.ni.tyd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,590 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « finitude » en français
Rare enough to double-check
finitude is uncommon French at frequency #54,590 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fi.ni.tyd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Caractère de ce qui n’est pas éternel, notamment en parlant de l’être humain.".
finitude doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 finitude, spelled F-I-N-I-T-U-D-E.
Definition
- 1Caractère de ce qui n’est pas éternel, notamment en parlant de l’être humain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how finitude appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’eus brusquement l’évidence, un matin, qu’un chrétien convaincu de la béatitude future n’aurait pas dû accorder le moindre prix aux choses éphémères. Comment la plupart d’entre eux acceptaient-ils de demeurer dans le siècle ? Plus je réfléchissais, plus je m’en étonnais. Je conclus qu’en tout cas je ne les imiterais pas : entre l’infini et la finitude, m…
Alors que le romancier, riche de son don d’ubiquité, peut se dédoubler en autant de personnages que son humeur daigne susciter au fil des pages, le poète reste fixé à la finitude de son expérience, à la racine de son cri.
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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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