Home › Words › S › spritsailspritsailspritsail means A form of three- or four-sided fore-and-aft sail and its rig, supporting the leech of the sail by means of a sprit.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, spritsail ranks #16,007 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom sprit + sail.nounA form of three- or four-sided fore-and-aft sail and its rig, supporting the leech of the sail by means of a sprit.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.sprit 80% match — A spar between mast and upper outer corner of a spritsail on sailing boats. vs spritsail →sprittie 75% match — A barge rigged with a spritsail vs spritsail →bowsprit 67% match — A spar projecting over the prow of a sailing vessel to provide the means of adding sail surface. vs spritsail →staysail 66% match — A fore-and-aft rigged sail whose luff can be affixed to a stay running forward from a mast to the deck, the bowsprit or to another mast. vs spritsail →crojik 63% match — A triangular sail on old sailing ships. vs spritsail →saillike 62% match — Having the form of a sail vs spritsail →bowspritted 62% match — Having a bowsprit. vs spritsail →ringsail 61% match — A light sail set abaft and beyond the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail. vs spritsail →