sprites
\spʁajt\
The verdict
“sprites” is uncommon French (frequency #84,333 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,333
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sprite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sprites · sprites · French
sprites · rank #84,333 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,333
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Spokane
Nearest frequency peer: Spokane (-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 « sprites »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- soumettons
soumettons
15,672 corpus weight
- sovereign
sovereign
15,671 corpus weight
- sparring
sparring
15,670 corpus weight
- Spokane
Spokane
15,669 corpus weight
- sprites
sprites
15,668 corpus weight
- spéléologue
spéléologue
15,667 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sprites » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « sprites » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sprites is uncommon French at frequency #84,333 among 6,032 “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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