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sautéed

adjective, verb

sautéed is spelled S-A-U-T-É-E-D: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 56,788th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, sautéed means “That has been cooked using a small amount of fat in an open pan over a relatively high heat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in sautéed?

Letters7: S-A-U-T-É-E-D
In writingabout once in every 4 million words; the 56,788th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is sautéed?

Sautéed appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 56,788th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce sautéed?

  • General-American

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-sautéed.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of sautéed

  • more sautéed comparative
  • most sautéed superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does sautéed mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    That has been cooked using a small amount of fat in an open pan over a relatively high heat.

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of sauté (a form of sauté)

  2. 2

    simple past and past participle of sautée (a form of sautée)

verb

as sauteed
  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of saute (a form of saute)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does sautéed come from?

From sauté + -ed.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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