The phrase "finding the right word" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe the process of selecting the most accurate or appropriate word for a particular context. For example, "He spent a long time finding the right word to describe his feelings of melancholy."
Take that last sentence: at first I wrote, finding the right word matters.
His wife, unlike him, had been — he hesitated before finding the right word — aspirational.
I enjoy finding the right word and giving each its full measure, its full space in a sentence".
I found that quite …" She paused, then seemed to dismiss the possibility of finding the right word.
Throughout, I've been conscious of his voice while refining my own — instinctively applying Zinsserian admonitions, pruning the verbiage, savoring the luxury (to paraphrase Twain) of finding the right word rather than settling for the almost right.
Speaking in nearly fluent Hebrew learned during extended periods in Israeli prisons, and pausing only occasionally to seek help from the three-judge panel in finding the right word, Mr. Barghouti made no plea for acquittal or mitigation.
When the stress test comes, the key will be finding the right words.
"I'll go in the studio with anybody… anybody can sing, it's just finding the right words".
In any fluid society, with meritocracy comes anxiety – anxiety about doing the right thing, striking the right tone, finding the right words.
His players, though, believe that Ryan's oratory genius lies not in the actual words but in finding the right words at the right moment.
There was also praying at Dulles International Airport in Virginia, but the airport chaplain, the Rev. Curtis L. Muldrow, said he had difficulty finding the right words.
