finis

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
9
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈfɪnɪs/
See all 2 pronunciations
/ˈfɪnɪs/ · /fiːˈniː/

Definition of finis

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Of a book or other work: the end.
    “He had gone through the work from the title-page to the finis at least forty times, and had just commenced it over again.”
    “Highly providential was the appearance on the scene of Corny Kelleher when Stephen was blissfully unconscious that, but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh hour, the finis might have been that he might have been a candidate for the accident ward, […]”

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Etymology

From Middle English finis, from Latin fīnis (“end; limit”). Doublet of fin, fine, and finish.

Words you can make from finis

10 playable · top: FINS (7 pts)

Best play fins 7 points

4-letter words

1 word

3-letter words

4 words

2-letter words

4 words

Hooks

1 extension · 1 back

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