spirits
\ˈspɪɹ.ɪts\
The verdict
“spirits” is uncommon French (frequency #73,569 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,569
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Eaux-de-vie, liqueurs fortes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spirits · spirits · French
spirits · rank #73,569 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,569
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spins
Nearest frequency peer: spins (-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 « spirits »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- soulèvera
soulèvera
26,436 corpus weight
- soumissionn…
soumissionner
26,435 corpus weight
- spins
spins
26,433 corpus weight
- spirits
spirits
26,432 corpus weight
- strava
strava
26,429 corpus weight
- striée
striée
26,428 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « spirits » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spirits |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈspɪɹ.ɪts\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « spirits » en français
Rare enough to double-check
spirits is uncommon French at frequency #73,569 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈspɪɹ.ɪts\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
spirits doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is spirits, spelled S-P-I-R-I-T-S.
Definition
- 1Eaux-de-vie, liqueurs fortes.
- 2Alcool, spiritueux.
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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