spirites
\spi.ʁit\
The verdict
“spirites” is uncommon French (frequency #98,510 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,510
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de spirite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spirites · spirites · French
spirites · rank #98,510 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,510
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH splendor
Nearest frequency peer: splendor (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « spirites »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sorrento
Sorrento
1,494 corpus weight
- spirites
spirites
1,491 corpus weight
- splendor
splendor
1,490 corpus weight
- Splitter
Splitter
1,489 corpus weight
- spruce
spruce
1,488 corpus weight
- spécifient
spécifient
1,487 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « spirites » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spirites |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \spi.ʁit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « spirites » en français
Rare enough to double-check
spirites is uncommon French at frequency #98,510 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \spi.ʁit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de spirite.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for spirites in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is spirites, spelled S-P-I-R-I-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de spirite.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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