spritz
/spɹɪts/
"spritz" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spritz” is uncommon English (frequency #55,765 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,765
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A sprinkling or spray of liquid; a small amount of liquid.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spritz |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /spɹɪts/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “spritz” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
spritz is uncommon English at frequency #55,765 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /spɹɪts/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for spritz in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Cognate with various Germanic counterparts, including German spritzen, Pennsylvania German schpritze, Yiddish שפּריץ (shprits, noun), and Yiddish שפּריצן (shpritsn, verb), and variously said (by various sources) to be borrowed from any of them; spritzer is … The correct English form is spritz, spelled S-P-R-I-T-Z.
Definition
- 1A sprinkling or spray of liquid; a small amount of liquid.
- 2A small amount of something; a dash or jot.
Etymology
Cognate with various Germanic counterparts, including German spritzen, Pennsylvania German schpritze, Yiddish שפּריץ (shprits, noun), and Yiddish שפּריצן (shpritsn, verb), and variously said (by various sources) to be borrowed from any of them; spritzer is said by some sources to be borrowed from German Spritzer, rather than being an English agent noun derived from this verb, but by surface analysis the connection is clear, even if sources do not adduce the evidence for the diachrony.
This word in other languages
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 “spritz”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-P-R-I-T-Z - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.