esprit
[ɛs.pʁi]
The verdict
“esprit” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,961. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,961
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Geist, Genius
Corpus desk
Index DE-esprit · esprit · German
esprit · rank #21,961 · 9 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #21,961
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH erwägt
Nearest frequency peer: erwägt (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „esprit“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- error
error
78,043 corpus weight
- ersteres
ersteres
78,042 corpus weight
- erwägt
erwägt
78,041 corpus weight
- esprit
esprit
78,040 corpus weight
- experimente…
experimentellen
78,038 corpus weight
- Expo
Expo
78,037 corpus weight
What this shows „esprit“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esprit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛs.pʁi] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „esprit“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around esprit (IPA [ɛs.pʁi]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,961 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Geist, Genius".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for esprit, with forms such as "epsrit", "espirt", and "espprit". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "esport", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is esprit, spelled E-S-P-R-I-T.
Definition
- 1Geist, Genius
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epsrit
- espirt
- espprit
- espritt
- esprrit
- esprti
- esrpit
- essprit
- seprit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of esprit - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "esprit", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).