sprint
/spɹɪnt/
"sprint" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sprint” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #7,613 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #7,613
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A short race at top speed.
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 | sprint |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /spɹɪnt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sprint” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for sprint is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /spɹɪnt/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,613 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sprint, with forms such as "psrint", "spirnt", and "spprint". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "stint", "string", "strict", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Alteration of earlier sprent (“to leap; bound; dart”), from Northern Middle English sprenten, from Old Norse *sprenta (for later spretta), from Proto-Germanic *sprantijaną, causative of Proto-Germanic *sprintaną (“to jump up; bounce”), from Proto-Indo-Europ… The correct English form is sprint, spelled S-P-R-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1A short race at top speed.
- 2A burst of speed or activity.
- 3In Agile software development, a period of development of a fixed time that is preceded and followed by meetings.
Etymology
Alteration of earlier sprent (“to leap; bound; dart”), from Northern Middle English sprenten, from Old Norse *sprenta (for later spretta), from Proto-Germanic *sprantijaną, causative of Proto-Germanic *sprintaną (“to jump up; bounce”), from Proto-Indo-European *sprend-, *sprendʰ- (“to flinch; jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to twitch; fidget; flinch; jump; be quick”). Cognate with Middle High German sprenzen (“to sprinkle; splash”), Swedish spritta (“to startle”), Icelandic spretta (“to spring forth; emerge; arise; develop”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: psrint,spirnt,spprint,sprinnt,sprintt,spritn,sprnit,sprrint,srpint,ssprint
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sprint - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “sprint”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-P-R-I-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /spɹɪnt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “stint” - see the side-by-side comparison. sprint vs stint
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.