Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

spruit

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.28 in modern English

Syllables: spruit
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A small headstream; a stream flowing through a village, dry in summer.

Example Sentences

"Though there is such a poor prospect for public irrigation schemes, the country seems, on the whole, fairly well watered in years of normal rainfall, and there are many springs and "spruits," or rivulets, more or less permanent."
"Pursuing my quest in the heat of a broiling sun, I reached a gigantic tree standing on the bank of a running rivulet, its branches over-hanging the flooded spruit."

Etymology

From Afrikaans spruit. Doublet of sprout.

Origin

Source language: Afrikaans

Word Breakdown

Root: spruit

Inflected Forms

spruits (plural)

Questions

What does spruit mean?: A small headstream; a stream flowing through a village, dry in summer.
Where does spruit come from?: It is traced to Afrikaans.

How to pronounce spruit

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