sprite

/\spʁajt\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#53,645

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

sprite is aFrenchnoun. It means: Image en deux dimensions partiellement transparente affichée à l’écran par-dessus un ensemble d’autres images. Pronounced \spʁajt\.

Key facts for sprite
PropertyValue
Headwordsprite
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\spʁajt\
Letters6
Frequency rank#53,645
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sprite is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \spʁajt\. Corpus data places it at rank #53,645 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Image en deux dimensions partiellement transparente affichée à l’écran par-dessus un ensemble d’autres images.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sprite in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 sprite, spelled S-P-R-I-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Image en deux dimensions partiellement transparente affichée à l’écran par-dessus un ensemble d’autres images.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #53,645 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sprite"?
"sprite" is spelled S-P-R-I-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \spʁajt\.
What does "sprite" mean?
As a noun, "sprite" means: Image en deux dimensions partiellement transparente affichée à l’écran par-dessus un ensemble d’autres images.
How do you pronounce "sprite"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sprite" is \spʁajt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sprite" come from?
"sprite" 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.