fimvsfindTell them apart

Quick tell: fim is a noun, find is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“fim” is a noun and “find” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#227
“fim” frequency rank
#9,055
“find” frequency rank
9282
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature fim find
Definition lugar ou tempo em que algo termina, final, antônimo de início encontrar

Letter map: fim vs find

Shared letters muted; letters that set fim and find apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

3 ch
fim
4 ch
find

Grammar separator: fim vs find

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: fim is anoun and findaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 9282, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

fim is recorded at frequency rank #227, classified as anoun. find is at rank #9,055, tagged as averb, pronounced /ˈfaɪnd/.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 9282, this pair ranks #64,198 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of fim vs find

Shared letters: fi. Private to "fim": m. Private to "find": dn.

"fim" · 3 letters · shape CVC  ·  "find" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • findffind · fidn · findd · finnd · fnid · ifnd

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "fim" and "find" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "fim" is a noun and "find" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "fim" or "find" show up more?
"fim" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #227 in our Portuguese list, against #9,055 for "find". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "fim" and "find". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "fim" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "find" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #64,198 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "fim" and "find" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "find vs finta". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #64,198 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list