sprint
\spʁint\
The verdict
“sprint” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #10,588 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #10,588
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Course sur une courte distance où l’athlète va le plus vite possible.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sprint |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spʁint\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sprint” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sprint is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sprint, with forms such as "psrint", "spirnt", and "spprint". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sprint, spelled S-P-R-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1Course sur une courte distance où l’athlète va le plus vite possible.
- 2Moment d’une course où les coureurs accélèrent pour remporter la première place.
- 3Course rapide.
- 4Unité de temps délimitant un lot de travail des approches agiles et scrum, durant lequel une équipe de développeurs réalise des développements logiciels.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: psrint,spirnt,spprint,sprinnt,sprintt,spritn,sprnit,sprrint,srpint,ssprint
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sprint - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “sprint”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-P-R-I-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \spʁint\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “strict” - see the side-by-side comparison. sprint vs strict
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.