sprat
French, noun\spʁat\
sprat is spelled S-P-R-A-T (5 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 155,929th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sprat is a French masculine noun meaning “sprat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Espèce de petit poisson osseux au dos bleuté et au ventre argenté de dix à quinze centimètres de long et qui…”.
What does sprat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesprat
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Espèce de petit poisson osseux au dos bleuté et au ventre argenté de dix à quinze centimètres de long et qui ressemble à un jeune hareng.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sprat
- sprats plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sprat?
- \spʁat\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sprat
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sprat in French?
sprat appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).