fintech
\fin.tɛk\
The verdict
“fintech” is uncommon French (frequency #65,947 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,947
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Entreprise utilisant la technologie pour innover en finance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fintech · fintech · French
fintech · rank #65,947 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,947
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH filion
Nearest frequency peer: filion (-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 « fintech »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Farsi
Farsi
34,057 corpus weight
- filion
filion
34,055 corpus weight
- fintech
fintech
34,054 corpus weight
- flatteries
flatteries
34,053 corpus weight
- fluctuante
fluctuante
34,052 corpus weight
- foisonnant
foisonnant
34,051 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fintech » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fintech |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fin.tɛk\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,947 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fintech » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fintech is uncommon French at frequency #65,947 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fin.tɛk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fintech, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists 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 fintech, spelled F-I-N-T-E-C-H.
Definition
- 1Entreprise utilisant la technologie pour innover en finance.
- 2Innovation financière de nature technologique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fintech appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La fintech, qui se présente comme une “plateforme de parcours d’accession à la propriété utilisant la technologie pour changer la façon dont les gens achètent et possèdent une maison”, est en passe d’afficher un bilan “de plus d’1 milliard de dollars”.
Aux fins du présent guide, la BCE définit une banque Fintech comme une entité présentant « un modèle d’activité dans le cadre duquel la production et la fourniture de produits et de services bancaires reposent sur l’innovation de nature technologique ».
This word in other languages
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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