spirituel
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spirituel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \spi.ʁi.tɥɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,380 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Qui est de la nature de l’esprit, ou qui le concerne.
- 2Relatif à l’âme, à la conscience, par opposition à sensuel, charnel.
- 3Qui regarde la religion, l’Église, par opposition à temporel.
- 4Qui est mystique, allégorique, par opposition à littéral.
- 5Qualifie les liens de l’esprit, de l’intelligence.
- 6Qui a de l’esprit.
- 7Qui est ingénieux, où il y a de l’esprit.
- 8Qualifie une physionomie, on devine, on présume que la personne a de l’esprit.
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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"
Frequency rank: #7,380 in French
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