sprint
French, noun/spʁint/
sprint is spelled S-P-R-I-N-T (6 letters) and appears 5.5 times per million words in written French, the 10,464th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sprint is a French masculine noun meaning “sprint, short top-speed race” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Course sur une courte distance où l’athlète va le plus vite possible”.
What does sprint mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesprint, short top-speed race
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Course sur une courte distance où l’athlète va le plus vite possible. 2. Moment d’une course où les coureurs accélèrent pour remporter la première place. 3. Course rapide. 4. Unité de temps délimitant un lot de travail des approches agiles et scrum, durant lequel une équipe de développeurs réalise des développements logiciels.
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 sprint
- sprints plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sprint?
- /spʁint/
- \spʁint\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sprint
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sprint in French?
sprint appears 5.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).