saboter

\sa.bɔ.te\

/\sa.bɔ.te\/ verb

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The verdict

“saboter” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,524. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#26,524
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire des sabots.

Corpus desk

Index FR-saboter · saboter · French

saboter · rank #26,524 · 10 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #26,524
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH réunira

Nearest frequency peer: réunira (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « saboter »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « saboter » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

saboter vs sauter
71% similar
saboter vs sabots
71% similar
saboter vs scooter
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for saboter
PropertyValue
Headwordsaboter
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\sa.bɔ.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#26,524
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « saboter »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).saboterse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « réunira » (#26,523), « sad » (#26,525), « réquisitoire » (#26,522). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « saboter » est au #26,524. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around saboter (IPA \sa.bɔ.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #26,524 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for saboter, with forms such as "asboter", "sabboter", and "saboetr". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "sauter", "sabots", "scooter", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is saboter, spelled S-A-B-O-T-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faire des sabots.
  2. 2
    Faire du bruit avec ses sabots.
  3. 3
    Jouer au sabot, une sorte de toupie, faire tourner.
  4. 4
    Placer un sabot, munir d’un sabot.
  5. 5
    Placer un sabot, munir d’un sabot.
  6. 6
    Détériorer, mettre hors d’usage volontairement et le plus souvent clandestinement, du matériel, des machines, des installations militaires ou civiles, etc.
  7. 7
    Faire vite et mal, bâcler, gâter, gâcher.
  8. 8
    Désorganiser, compromettre le succès d’un projet, d’une entreprise.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how saboter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La saboterie a pris plus d’extension depuis quelque temps, par suite de l’emploi des machines à saboter qui fabriquent plus vite et mieux que les ouvriers ordinaires.
  2. Les chevaux de relais étaient prêts et piaffaient, se sabotant de feu.

This word in other languages

sabotage(English)sabotear(Español)sabotieren(Deutsch)sabotar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asboter
  • sabboter
  • saboetr
  • saboterr
  • sabotre
  • sabotter
  • sabtoer
  • saobter
  • sbaoter
  • ssaboter

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of saboter - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

asboter2sabboter1saboetr2saboterr1sabotre2sabotter1sabtoer2saobter2
Edit distance from "saboter"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "saboter"?
"saboter" is spelled S-A-B-O-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.bɔ.te\.
What does "saboter" mean?
As a verb, "saboter" means: Faire des sabots.
What words are commonly confused with "saboter"?
"saboter" is commonly confused with "sauter", "sabots", "scooter". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "saboter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "saboter" is \sa.bɔ.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "saboter" come from?
"saboter" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "saboter", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

réunira#26,523sermons#26,536siègent#26,541relient#26,506

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Solange10 variantsrations10 variantsstocké10 variantstreillis10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list