saut
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,187
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
saut is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de sauter, bond, mouvement brusque par lequel on s’élance en l’air. Pronounced \so\. It ranks #5,187 in French word frequency. Often confused with st and su.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \so\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for saut is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \so\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,187 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for saut, with forms such as "asut", "satu", and "sautt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "st", "su", "sur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is saut, spelled S-A-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de sauter, bond, mouvement brusque par lequel on s’élance en l’air.
- 2Discipline sportive.
- 3Se rendre d’un lieu à un autre avec une extrême promptitude.
- 4Chute d’eau qui se rencontre dans le courant d’une rivière.
- 5Interruption dans la marche continue et graduelle des phénomènes.
- 6Saillie.
- 7Voyage supraluminique non observable dans l’espace ordinaire.
- 8Passage du flux d'un routeur à l'autre.
- 9Passage rapide d'un état à un autre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asut,satu,sautt,ssaut,suat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for saut
Misspelling Variants of "saut"
Frequency rank: #5,187 in French
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Nearby French words
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