index finger

/\ˈɪn.dɛks ˌfɪŋ.ɡɚ\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

index finger is aFrenchnoun. It means: Index. Pronounced \ˈɪn.dɛks ˌfɪŋ.ɡɚ\.

Key facts for index finger
PropertyValue
Headwordindex finger
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈɪn.dɛks ˌfɪŋ.ɡɚ\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

index finger is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for index finger is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈɪn.dɛks ˌfɪŋ.ɡɚ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Index.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for index finger in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is index finger, spelled I-N-D-E-X- -F-I-N-G-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Index.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "index finger"?
"index finger" is spelled I-N-D-E-X- -F-I-N-G-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈɪn.dɛks ˌfɪŋ.ɡɚ\.
What does "index finger" mean?
As a noun, "index finger" means: Index.
How do you pronounce "index finger"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "index finger" is \ˈɪn.dɛks ˌfɪŋ.ɡɚ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "index finger" come from?
"index finger" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.