sprinter

/\spʁin.te\/ verb

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#39,552

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

sprinter is aFrenchverb. It means: Courir le plus rapidement possible. Pronounced \spʁin.te\. Often confused with sprints and sprinteur.

Key facts for sprinter
PropertyValue
Headwordsprinter
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\spʁin.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#39,552
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sprinter is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \spʁin.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #39,552 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Courir le plus rapidement possible.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for sprinter, with forms such as "psrinter", "spirnter", and "spprinter". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "sprints", "sprinteur", "sprint", 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 sprinter, spelled S-P-R-I-N-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Courir le plus rapidement possible.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: psrinter,spirnter,spprinter,sprinetr,sprinnter,sprinterr,sprintre,sprintter,spritner,sprniter,sprrinter,srpinter,ssprinter

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sprinter

Misspelling Variants of "sprinter"

psrinter8spirnter8spprinter9sprinetr8sprinnter9sprinterr9sprintre8sprintter9
Misspelling Variants of "sprinter"

Frequency rank: #39,552 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sprinter"?
"sprinter" is spelled S-P-R-I-N-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \spʁin.te\.
What does "sprinter" mean?
As a verb, "sprinter" means: Courir le plus rapidement possible.
What words are commonly confused with "sprinter"?
"sprinter" is commonly confused with "sprints", "sprinteur", "sprint". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sprinter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sprinter" is \spʁin.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sprinter" come from?
"sprinter" 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.