spirituel

/\spi.ʁi.tɥɛl\/ adj

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,380

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

spirituel is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est de la nature de l’esprit, ou qui le concerne. Pronounced \spi.ʁi.tɥɛl\. It ranks #7,380 in French word frequency. Often confused with spirituels and spiritueux.

Key facts for spirituel
PropertyValue
Headwordspirituel
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\spi.ʁi.tɥɛl\
Letters9
Frequency rank#7,380
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of spirituel in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for spirituel is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \spi.ʁi.tɥɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,380 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for spirituel, with forms such as "psirituel", "siprituel", and "spiirtuel". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "spirituels", "spiritueux", "spirituelle", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 spirituel, spelled S-P-I-R-I-T-U-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est de la nature de l’esprit, ou qui le concerne.
  2. 2
    Relatif à l’âme, à la conscience, par opposition à sensuel, charnel.
  3. 3
    Qui regarde la religion, l’Église, par opposition à temporel.
  4. 4
    Qui est mystique, allégorique, par opposition à littéral.
  5. 5
    Qualifie les liens de l’esprit, de l’intelligence.
  6. 6
    Qui a de l’esprit.
  7. 7
    Qui est ingénieux, où il y a de l’esprit.
  8. 8
    Qualifie une physionomie, on devine, on présume que la personne a de l’esprit.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: psirituel,siprituel,spiirtuel,spiriteul,spirittuel,spirituell,spiritule,spiriutel,spirrituel,spirtiuel,sppirituel,spriituel,sspirituel

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for spirituel

Misspelling Variants of "spirituel"

psirituel9siprituel9spiirtuel9spiriteul9spirittuel10spirituell10spiritule9spiriutel9
Misspelling Variants of "spirituel"

Frequency rank: #7,380 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "spirituel"?
"spirituel" is spelled S-P-I-R-I-T-U-E-L. The IPA pronunciation is \spi.ʁi.tɥɛl\.
What does "spirituel" mean?
As an adj, "spirituel" means: Qui est de la nature de l’esprit, ou qui le concerne.
What words are commonly confused with "spirituel"?
"spirituel" is commonly confused with "spirituels", "spiritueux", "spirituelle". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "spirituel"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "spirituel" is \spi.ʁi.tɥɛl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "spirituel" come from?
"spirituel" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.