sprint
/spɹɪnt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
In Agile software development, a period of development of a fixed time that is preceded and followed by meetings.
Example Sentences
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)prend-der. Proto-Germanic *sprintaną Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *sprantijaną Old Norse *sprentabor. Middle English sprenten English sprent English sprint Alteration of earlier sprent (“to leap; bound; dart”), from Northern Middle English sprenten, from Old Norse *sprenta (for later spretta), from Proto-Germanic *sprantijaną, causative of Proto-Germanic *sprintaną (“to jump up; bounce”), from Proto-Indo-European *sprend-, *sprendʰ- (“to flinch; jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to twitch; fidget; flinch; jump; be quick”). Cognate with Middle High German sprenzen (“to sprinkle; splash”), Swedish spritta (“to startle”), Icelandic spretta (“to spring forth; emerge; arise; develop”).