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sprites

/spɹaɪts/

sprites is the plural of sprite.

Meaning of sprite

Noun

sprite (plural sprites)

  1. A spirit; a soul; a shade.
    • He who torments the chafer's sprite
      Weaves a bower in endless night.1803, William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
  2. An apparition; a ghost.
  3. An elf, fairy, or goblin; one with a small humanlike physical body.
  4. A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene.
  5. A large electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm, which appears as a luminous red or orange flash.
  6. The green woodpecker, or yaffle (Picus viridis).

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Proper noun capitalized: Sprites

Sprites

  1. (plural) plural of Sprite

Phrases with sprites

Words that rhyme with sprites

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Questions about sprites

What is sprites the plural of?
Sprites is the plural of sprite.
What part of speech is sprites?
Sprites is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce sprites?
Sprites is pronounced /spɹaɪts/.

Words near sprites in the dictionary

  1. spritely
  2. spritemap
  3. spritemaps
  4. spriter
  5. spriters
  6. sprites
  7. spritesheet
  8. spritesheets
  9. spritework
  10. spriting
  11. spritish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sprites (page history and authors); Sprites (page history and authors); sprite (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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