sprite
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 6
Definition of sprite
11 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined:
“He who torments the chafer's sprite Weaves a bower in endless night.”
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noun
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Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined:
“He who torments the chafer's sprite Weaves a bower in endless night.”
- Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined:
- Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined:
- A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene.
- A large electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm, which appears as a luminous red or orange flash.
- The green woodpecker, or yaffle (Picus viridis).
- Any of various African damselflies of the genus Pseudagrion (of which, Australian species are named riverdamsels).
- A spayed female ferret.
- (alt-of, alternative, obsolete)Alternative form of spright (“frame of mind, disposition”).
verb
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(informal)To draw a (specifically) pixel art sprite.
“sprited the new NPCs”
name
- A colourless, caffeine-free, lemon and lime-flavoured soft drink.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English sprite, spryt, spreyte, from Old French esprit (“spirit”), from Latin spīritus. Doublet of spirit, spiritus, spirytus, spright, and esprit. (computer graphics): First used by Danny Hillis at Texas Instruments in the late 1970s. (meteorology): An acronym for Stratospheric Perturbations Resulting from Intense Thunderstorm Electrification.
Words you can make from sprite
99 playable · top: ESPRIT (8 pts)
Best play esprit 8 points6-letter words
5 words5-letter words
24 words4-letter words
30 words- PERI 6 pts
- PERT 6 pts
- PEST 6 pts
- PETS 6 pts
- PIER 6 pts
- PIES 6 pts
- PITS 6 pts
- REPS 6 pts
- RIPE 6 pts
- RIPS 6 pts
- SEPT 6 pts
- SIPE 6 pts
- SPIT 6 pts
- STEP 6 pts
- TIPS 6 pts
- TRIP 6 pts
- ERST 4 pts
- IRES 4 pts
- REIS 4 pts
- REST 4 pts
- RETS 4 pts
- RISE 4 pts
- RITE 4 pts
- SIRE 4 pts
- SITE 4 pts
- STIR 4 pts
- TIER 4 pts
- TIES 4 pts
- TIRE 4 pts
- TRES 4 pts
3-letter words
28 words2-letter words
11 wordsHooks
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