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sprightly

spright·ly/ˈspɹaɪtli/adjective, adverb

sprightly is spelled S-P-R-I-G-H-T-L-Y: 9 letters and 2 syllables (spright·ly). It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 53,573rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, sprightly means “Animated, gay, or vivacious; lively, spirited” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in sprightly?

Letters9: S-P-R-I-G-H-T-L-Y
Syllables2: spright·ly
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 53,573rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is sprightly?

Sprightly appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 53,573rd most frequent word form in the list.

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

How do you pronounce sprightly?

  • US /ˈspɹaɪtli/

Sprightly has 2 syllables, split spright·ly in writing.

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

What rhymes with sprightly?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sprightly from its last stressed vowel (/aɪtli/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of sprightly

  • sprightlier comparative
  • sprightliest superlative
  • sprightlie
  • spritely

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

What does sprightly mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Animated, gay, or vivacious; lively, spirited.

  2. 2

    Of a person: full of life and vigour, especially with a light and springy step.

  3. 3

    Especially of an older person: energetic and in good health; spry.

  4. 4

    obsoleterareOf or relating to a sprite; ghostly, spectral.

adverb

  1. 1

    In a lively and vigorous way; sprightlily.

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

Sprightly in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchanimé (animated, gay, or vivacious – see also lively), vif (of a person: full of life and vigour), vigoureusement (in a lively and vigorous way)
Germanspritzig, flott (animated, gay, or vivacious – see also lively)
Spanishvigoroso (of a person: full of life and vigour)

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.

Where does sprightly come from?

From spright + -ly (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘behaving like, having the nature of’).

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

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