finances

Other forms of finances

plural

financeses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about finances

What does finances mean?

finances means "assets in the form of money".

How many syllables are in finances?

finances has 3 syllables: fi-nan-ces. The stress falls on "nan". In IPA it is /fɪˈnænsɪz/.

What is another word for finances?

Close synonyms include funds, monetary resource, cash in hand, pecuniary resource. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is finances a common word?

finances is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.