spring

\ʃpʁɪŋ\

/\ʃpʁɪŋ\/ verb

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The verdict

“spring” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,689. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,689
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
15
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de springen.

Corpus desk

Index FR-spring · spring · French

spring · rank #19,689 · 10 variants · 15 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,689
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH souviendra

Nearest frequency peer: souviendra (-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 « spring »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « spring » 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).

spring vs swing
67% similar
spring vs sting
67% similar
spring vs sprint
83% similar

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

Key facts for spring
PropertyValue
Headwordspring
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʃpʁɪŋ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#19,689
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « spring »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.springse 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 « souviendra » (#19,688), « Starbucks » (#19,690), « souri » (#19,687). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « spring » est au #19,689. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around spring (IPA \ʃpʁɪŋ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,689 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de springen.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for spring, with forms such as "psring", "spirng", and "sppring". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "swing", "sting", "sprint", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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 spring, spelled S-P-R-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de springen.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • psring
  • spirng
  • sppring
  • sprign
  • springg
  • sprinng
  • sprnig
  • sprring
  • srping
  • sspring

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spring - 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.

psring2spirng2sppring1sprign2springg1sprinng1sprnig2sprring1
Edit distance from "spring"

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 "spring"?
"spring" is spelled S-P-R-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃpʁɪŋ\.
What does "spring" mean?
As a verb, "spring" means: Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de springen.
What words are commonly confused with "spring"?
"spring" is commonly confused with "swing", "sting", "sprint". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "spring"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "spring" is \ʃpʁɪŋ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "spring" come from?
"spring" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

strike#19,691tenace#19,698saleté#19,678tribut#19,705

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Socrate10 variantstombera10 variantstornade10 variantsruisseaux10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list