sautaient
\so.tɛ\
The verdict
“sautaient” is uncommon French (frequency #72,723 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,723
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de sauter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sautaient · sautaient · French
sautaient · rank #72,723 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,723
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH satisfais
Nearest frequency peer: satisfais (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « sautaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sarcome
sarcome
27,281 corpus weight
- sastre
sastre
27,280 corpus weight
- satisfais
satisfais
27,279 corpus weight
- sautaient
sautaient
27,278 corpus weight
- sautiller
sautiller
27,277 corpus weight
- sauveront
sauveront
27,276 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sautaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sautaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \so.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sautaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sautaient is uncommon French at frequency #72,723 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \so.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de sauter.".
sautaient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is sautaient, spelled S-A-U-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de sauter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sautaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle s’était pendu, par gaminerie, des guignes aux oreilles, des guignes noires qui sautaient sur ses joues, quand elle se penchait, toute sonore de rires.
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.
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