sprint

\spʁint\

/\spʁint\/ noun

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The verdict

“sprint” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,588. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,588
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
14
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Course sur une courte distance où l’athlète va le plus vite possible.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sprint · sprint · French

sprint · rank #10,588 · 10 variants · 14 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,588
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH spot

Nearest frequency peer: spot (-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 « sprint »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « sprint » 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).

sprint vs strict
67% similar
sprint vs string
67% similar
sprint vs sprints
86% similar

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

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

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sprint »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).sprintse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « spot » (#10,587), « sucer » (#10,589), « south » (#10,586). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sprint » est au #10,588. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around sprint (IPA \spʁint\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,588 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

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

  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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how sprint appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les règles du sprint en athlétisme stipulent depuis 2002 que, si un athlète quitte les starting blocks en moins de 100 ms (0,1 s) après le coup de feu, il sera sanctionné d'un faux départ.
  2. En trois jours, en trois arrivées totalement différentes, le patron du Tour a marqué les esprits : adroit et offensif sur les pavés, surpuissant dans un sprint en côte, ultra-déterminé et impitoyable après les 7 km d’ascension de la Planche.

This word in other languages

sprint(English)Sprint(Deutsch)

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.

psrint2spirnt2spprint1sprinnt1sprintt1spritn2sprnit2sprrint1
Edit distance from "sprint"

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 "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. 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 "sprint", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

sécher#10,592Verdun#10,604renvoi#10,571vilain#10,607

Similar misspelling depth

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

syrienne10 variantsvendues10 variantsrecevra10 variantséclairé10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list