Saint-Esprit
\sɛ̃.t‿ɛs.pʁi\
The verdict
“Saint-Esprit” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Nom que l’on donne à la troisième personne de la Trinité.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Saint-Esprit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.t‿ɛs.pʁi\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Saint-Esprit” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Saint-Esprit is 12 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛ̃.t‿ɛs.pʁi\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Saint-Esprit in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Saint-Esprit, spelled S-A-I-N-T---E-S-P-R-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom que l’on donne à la troisième personne de la Trinité.
- 2Ellipse de ordre du Saint-Esprit, ordre de chevalerie français fondé par Henri III en 1578.
- 3Bijou, généralement auvergnat ou parfois normand, qui se fixe à un collier, constitué d’une partie descendante qui se termine par un bijou ayant plus ou moins la forme d’une colombe — forme sous laquelle est souvent représenté l’Esprit Saint —, puis de là se divise en trois pendentifs.
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Using “Saint-Esprit”
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- The one correct French spelling is S-A-I-N-T---E-S-P-R-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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