spirits

/ˈspɪɹɪts/noun, verb

spirits is spelled S-P-I-R-I-T-S: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,496th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, spirits means “Distilled alcoholic beverages” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in spirits?

Letters	7: S-P-I-R-I-T-S
Syllables	2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	14 times per million words; the 5,496th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is spirits?

Spirits appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,496th most frequent word form in the list.

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce spirits?

/ˈspɪɹɪts/

Spirits has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-spirits.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Mélange_a_trois-spirits.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does spirits mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

1
AustraliaUKDistilled alcoholic beverages.
2
plural of spirit (a form of spirit)

verb

1
third-person singular simple present indicative of spirit (a form of spirit)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Spirits in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation:

Language	Words
French	spiritueux
Portuguese	destilados

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.