saut

/\so\/ noun

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.

Key facts for saut
PropertyValue
Headwordsaut
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\so\
Letters4
Frequency rank#5,187
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of saut in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Action de sauter, bond, mouvement brusque par lequel on s’élance en l’air.
  2. 2
    Discipline sportive.
  3. 3
    Se rendre d’un lieu à un autre avec une extrême promptitude.
  4. 4
    Chute d’eau qui se rencontre dans le courant d’une rivière.
  5. 5
    Interruption dans la marche continue et graduelle des phénomènes.
  6. 6
    Saillie.
  7. 7
    Voyage supraluminique non observable dans l’espace ordinaire.
  8. 8
    Passage du flux d'un routeur à l'autre.
  9. 9
    Passage rapide d'un état à un autre.

Synonyms

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"

asut4satu4sautt5ssaut5suat4
Misspelling Variants of "saut"

Frequency rank: #5,187 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "saut"?
"saut" is spelled S-A-U-T. The IPA pronunciation is \so\.
What does "saut" mean?
As a noun, "saut" means: Action de sauter, bond, mouvement brusque par lequel on s’élance en l’air.
What words are commonly confused with "saut"?
"saut" is commonly confused with "st", "su", "sur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "saut"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "saut" is \so\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "saut" come from?
"saut" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter S in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.