sprites
\spʁajt\
The verdict
“sprites” is uncommon French (frequency #84,333 among 394,209 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,333
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pluriel de sprite.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sprites |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spʁajt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,333 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sprites” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sprites is uncommon French at frequency #84,333 among 394,209 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \spʁajt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de sprite.".
sprites has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sprites, spelled S-P-R-I-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sprite.
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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Using “sprites”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-P-R-I-T-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.