sauta

\so.ta\

/\so.ta\/ verb

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The verdict

“sauta” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,174. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#44,174
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de sauter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sauta · sauta · French

sauta · rank #44,174 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #44,174
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sata

Nearest frequency peer: sata (-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 « sauta »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « sauta » 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).

sauta vs shut
60% similar
sauta vs sauvé
60% similar
sauta vs sauté
80% similar

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

Key facts for sauta
PropertyValue
Headwordsauta
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\so.ta\
Letters5
Frequency rank#44,174
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sauta »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.sautase place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sata » (#44,173), « Savard » (#44,175), « sacrer » (#44,171). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sauta » est au #44,174. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around sauta (IPA \so.ta\), averb. Corpus frequency is #44,174 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de sauter.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for sauta, with forms such as "asuta", "satua", and "sauat". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "shut", "sauvé", "sauté", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sauta, spelled S-A-U-T-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de sauter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Parmi les cadeaux qu’il découvrit au fur et à mesure, une boîte à chaussure entourée d’un ruban rouge l’interrogeait. Que pouvait-il contenir ? Quand il l’ouvrit, un shar-peï sortit sa petite frimousse, eut comme un sourire sur ses babines et lui sauta dans les bras.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asuta
  • satua
  • sauat
  • sautta
  • ssauta
  • suata

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sauta - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

asuta2satua2sauat2sautta1ssauta1suata2
Edit distance from "sauta"

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 "sauta"?
"sauta" is spelled S-A-U-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is \so.ta\.
What does "sauta" mean?
As a verb, "sauta" means: Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de sauter.
What words are commonly confused with "sauta"?
"sauta" is commonly confused with "shut", "sauvé", "sauté". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sauta"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sauta" is \so.ta\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sauta" come from?
"sauta" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

scier#44,177scope#44,179tafta#44,213taxée#44,216

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

SDIS6 variantsvern6 variantsways6 variantsécria6 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list