spirituel

\spi.ʁi.tɥɛl\

/\spi.ʁi.tɥɛl\/ adj

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The verdict

“spirituel” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,380. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,380
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est de la nature de l’esprit, ou qui le concerne.

Corpus desk

Index FR-spirituel · spirituel · French

spirituel · rank #7,380 · 13 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,380
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH spectateur

Nearest frequency peer: spectateur (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « spirituel »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « spirituel » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

spirituel vs spirituels
90% similar
spirituel vs spiritueux
80% similar
spirituel vs spirituelle
82% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « spirituel »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.spirituelse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « spectateur » (#7,379), « sportives » (#7,381), « sombres » (#7,378). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « spirituel » est au #7,380. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around spirituel (IPA \spi.ʁi.tɥɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,380 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for spirituel, with forms such as "psirituel", "siprituel", and "spiirtuel". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "spirituels", "spiritueux", "spirituelle", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is spirituel, spelled S-P-I-R-I-T-U-E-L.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how spirituel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le génie de la Résistance, c'est d'avoir su conjoindre, face à une même urgence historique, toutes les forces spirituelles de ce pays.
  2. La vie spirituelle.

Synonyms

witzig

This word in other languages

spiritual(English)chistoso(Español)geistreich(Deutsch)espiritual(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • psirituel
  • siprituel
  • spiirtuel
  • spiriteul
  • spirittuel
  • spirituell
  • spiritule
  • spiriutel
  • spirrituel
  • spirtiuel
  • sppirituel
  • spriituel
  • sspirituel

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spirituel - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

psirituel2siprituel2spiirtuel2spiriteul2spirittuel1spirituell1spiritule2spiriutel2
Edit distance from "spirituel"

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.

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 adjective, "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's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "spirituel", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sportives#7,381résidents#7,372accroître#7,395algériens#7,399

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

suspects13 variantssynonyme13 variantsplancher13 variantsmultitude13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list