fintech

\fin.tɛk\

/\fin.tɛk\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fintech » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for fintech
PropertyValue
Headwordfintech
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fin.tɛk\
Letters7
Frequency rank#65,947
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « fintech » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).fintechtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « filion » (#65,946), « flatteries » (#65,948), « fluctuante » (#65,949). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « fintech » est au #65,947. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Entreprise utilisant la technologie pour innover en finance.
  2. 2
    Innovation financière de nature technologique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how fintech appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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”.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fintech"?
"fintech" is spelled F-I-N-T-E-C-H. The IPA pronunciation is \fin.tɛk\.
What does "fintech" mean?
As a noun, "fintech" means: Entreprise utilisant la technologie pour innover en finance.
How do you pronounce "fintech"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fintech" is \fin.tɛk\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fintech" come from?
"fintech" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fintech", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list