Esprit-Saint
[ɛs.pʁi sɛ̃]
The verdict
“Esprit-Saint” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de Saint-Esprit
Corpus desk
Index FR-esprit-saint · Esprit-Saint · French
Esprit-Saint · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Esprit-Saint |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ɛs.pʁi sɛ̃] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Esprit-Saint » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Esprit-Saint is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ɛs.pʁi sɛ̃]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de Saint-Esprit".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Esprit-Saint in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Esprit-Saint, spelled E-S-P-R-I-T---S-A-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1Variante de Saint-Esprit
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Esprit-Saint appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], je dois murmurer à voix très basse : — Esprit-Saint, aidez-moi ! L'idéal serait de faire en même temps le signe de croix. A l'église, pas de problème. En classe, dans la rue, impossible d'implorer le secours de l’Esprit-Saint : les communistes se moqueraient de moi.
– ... voyez cet ouvrage de bois : il renferme l’Esprit-Saint de notre expédition.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.