sprite
\spʁajt\
The verdict
“sprite” is uncommon French (frequency #53,645 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,645
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Image en deux dimensions partiellement transparente affichée à l’écran par-dessus un ensemble d’autres images.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sprite · sprite · French
sprite · rank #53,645 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,645
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH squelettiques
Nearest frequency peer: squelettiques (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « sprite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sortirez
sortirez
46,360 corpus weight
- soudeur
soudeur
46,359 corpus weight
- souhaités
souhaités
46,358 corpus weight
- sprite
sprite
46,356 corpus weight
- squelettiqu…
squelettiques
46,355 corpus weight
- stratifié
stratifié
46,354 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sprite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sprite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spʁajt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,645 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sprite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sprite is uncommon French at frequency #53,645 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \spʁajt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Image en deux dimensions partiellement transparente affichée à l’écran par-dessus un ensemble d’autres images.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sprite, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sprite, spelled S-P-R-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Image en deux dimensions partiellement transparente affichée à l’écran par-dessus un ensemble d’autres images.
This word in other languages
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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