sprint

/\spʁint\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#10,588

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

14

similar word pairs

sprint is aFrenchnoun. It means: Course sur une courte distance où l’athlète va le plus vite possible. Pronounced \spʁint\. Often confused with strict and string.

Key facts for sprint
PropertyValue
Headwordsprint
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\spʁint\
Letters6
Frequency rank#10,588
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sprint is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \spʁint\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,588 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for sprint, with forms such as "psrint", "spirnt", and "spprint". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "strict", "string", "sprints", 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 sprint, spelled S-P-R-I-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Course sur une courte distance où l’athlète va le plus vite possible.
  2. 2
    Moment d’une course où les coureurs accélèrent pour remporter la première place.
  3. 3
    Course rapide.
  4. 4
    Unité de temps délimitant un lot de travail des approches agiles et scrum, durant lequel une équipe de développeurs réalise des développements logiciels.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: psrint,spirnt,spprint,sprinnt,sprintt,spritn,sprnit,sprrint,srpint,ssprint

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sprint

Misspelling Variants of "sprint"

psrint6spirnt6spprint7sprinnt7sprintt7spritn6sprnit6sprrint7
Misspelling Variants of "sprint"

Frequency rank: #10,588 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sprint"?
"sprint" is spelled S-P-R-I-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \spʁint\.
What does "sprint" mean?
As a noun, "sprint" means: Course sur une courte distance où l’athlète va le plus vite possible.
What words are commonly confused with "sprint"?
"sprint" is commonly confused with "strict", "string", "sprints". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sprint"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sprint" is \spʁint\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sprint" come from?
"sprint" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.