Sprache
\ˈʃpʁaː.xə\
The verdict
“Sprache” is uncommon French (frequency #76,143 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,143
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sprache · Sprache · French
Sprache · rank #76,143 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,143
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spit
Nearest frequency peer: spit (-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 « Sprache »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- soustrayant
soustrayant
23,861 corpus weight
- spear
spear
23,860 corpus weight
- spit
spit
23,859 corpus weight
- Sprache
Sprache
23,858 corpus weight
- squadron
squadron
23,856 corpus weight
- squatters
squatters
23,855 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Sprache » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sprache |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈʃpʁaː.xə\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,143 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Sprache » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Sprache is uncommon French at frequency #76,143 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈʃpʁaː.xə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Sprache doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Sprache, spelled S-P-R-A-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Langue.
- 2Langage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sprache appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.
Miesel bezieht seine Einkünfte aus Übersetzungen. Aus dem Englischen, dem Russischen und dem Polnischen, der Sprache, in der seine Großmutter während seiner Kindheit zu ihm sprach.
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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