sprich
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,998
in German word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sprich is aGermanverb. It means: 2. Person Singular Präsens Imperativ Aktiv des Verbs sprechen Pronounced [ʃpʁɪç]. It ranks #3,998 in German word frequency. Often confused with Stich and Sprit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sprich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃpʁɪç] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for sprich is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃpʁɪç]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,998 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for sprich, with forms such as "psrich", "spirch", and "spprich". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Stich", "Sprit", "Spruch", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is sprich, spelled S-P-R-I-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Präsens Imperativ Aktiv des Verbs sprechen
- 2[1] Aufforderung zu sprechen
- 3[2] Anleitung zur Aussprache
- 4[3] Einleitung einer Umschreibung
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: psrich,spirch,spprich,sprcih,spricch,sprichh,sprihc,sprrich,srpich,ssprich
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sprich
Misspelling Variants of "sprich"
Frequency rank: #3,998 in German
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