spritevsstrikeWhich spelling fits?

Which to use

“sprite” and “strike” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#43,165
“sprite” frequency rank
#12,985
“strike” frequency rank
56150
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature sprite strike
Definition imagem bidimensional rasterizada feita de mapa de bites, que toma parte em formação de gráficos em movimento o ato de derrubar os dez pinos com a bola

Letter map: sprite vs strike

Shared letters muted; letters that set sprite and strike apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

6 ch
sprite
6 ch
strike

Pair insight - sprite / strike

sprite and strike are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56150, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sprite is recorded at frequency rank #43,165, classified as anoun. strike is at rank #12,985, tagged as anoun, pronounced /'strajk/, /is'traiki/.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 56150, this pair ranks #10,141 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of sprite vs strike

Shared letters: eirst. Private to "sprite": p. Private to "strike": k.

"sprite" · 6 letters · shape CCCVCV  ·  "strike" · 6 letters · shape CCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • spritepsrite · spirte · spprite · spriet · spritte · sprrite · sprtie · srpite
  • strikesrtike · sstrike · stirke · striek · strikke · strkie · strrike · sttrike

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "sprite" and "strike" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "sprite" or "strike" show up more?
"strike" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,985 in our Portuguese list, against #43,165 for "sprite". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "sprite" and "strike".

  • Full dictionary entry for "sprite" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "strike" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #10,141 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "sprite" and "strike" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "spring vs sprite". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #10,141 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list