Sprint
German, noun
Sprint is spelled S-P-R-I-N-T (6 letters) and appears 5.5 times per million words in written German, the 11,404th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sprint is a German masculine noun meaning “sprint (race)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, sprint is a different word: “singular imperative of sprinten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “das Zurücklegen einer Kurzstrecke in der größtmöglichen Geschwindigkeit (in verschiedenen Bereichen des…”.
What does Sprint mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesprint (race)
- 2
masculinesprint (act of sprinting)
verb
- 1
singular imperative of sprinten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. das Zurücklegen einer Kurzstrecke in der größtmöglichen Geschwindigkeit (in verschiedenen Bereichen des Sports, z. B. in der Leichtathletik, im Radsport, im Schwimmen, im Eisschnelllauf oder im Skilanglauf)
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Sprint
- Sprints genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Sprint
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Sprint in German?
Sprint appears 5.5 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).