spiritus

noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#61,158

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

spiritus is aFrenchnoun. It means: Souffle, vent.

Key facts for spiritus
PropertyValue
Headwordspiritus
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#61,158
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for spiritus is 8 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #61,158 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for spiritus in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Souffle, vent.
  2. 2
    Parfum, exhalaison, émanation, odeur, flatuosité.
  3. 3
    Air, atmosphère.
  4. 4
    Air respiré, souffle de la respiration, haleine, respiration.
  5. 5
    Souffle vital, principe de la vie, vie.
  6. 6
    Esprit, sentiment, cœur.
  7. 7
    Souffle créateur, inspiration (poétique, prophétique).
  8. 8
    Esprit (rude ou doux).
  9. 9
    Aspiration, ton de la voix, son de la voix, division du temps fixé par la respiration, mesure.
  10. 10
    (Théologie) Esprit.

Frequency rank: #61,158 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "spiritus"?
"spiritus" is spelled S-P-I-R-I-T-U-S.
What does "spiritus" mean?
As a noun, "spiritus" means: Souffle, vent.
What language does "spiritus" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.