sautait

\so.tɛ\

/\so.tɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“sautait” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,529. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#41,529
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de sauter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sautait · sautait · French

sautait · rank #41,529 · 9 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #41,529
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sauge

Nearest frequency peer: sauge (-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 « sautait »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « sautait » 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).

sautait vs savait
71% similar
sautait vs souhait
71% similar
sautait vs sentait
71% similar

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

Key facts for sautait
PropertyValue
Headwordsautait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\so.tɛ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#41,529
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sautait »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sauge » (#41,528), « Saturn » (#41,527), « Scheer » (#41,531). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sautait » est au #41,529. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around sautait (IPA \so.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #41,529 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de sauter.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for sautait, with forms such as "asutait", "satuait", and "sauatit". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "savait", "souhait", "sentait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sautait, spelled S-A-U-T-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de sauter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Deux femmes, la mère et la fille, celle-ci, Norine, rouleuse et célèbre, étalaient sur une table boiteuse de la morue, des harengs salés, des harengs saurs, un vidage de fonds de baril dont la saumure forte sautait à la gorge.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asutait
  • satuait
  • sauatit
  • sautaitt
  • sautati
  • sautiat
  • sauttait
  • ssautait
  • suatait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sautait - 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.

asutait2satuait2sauatit2sautaitt1sautati2sautiat2sauttait1ssautait1
Edit distance from "sautait"

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 "sautait"?
"sautait" is spelled S-A-U-T-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \so.tɛ\.
What does "sautait" mean?
As a verb, "sautait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de sauter.
What words are commonly confused with "sautait"?
"sautait" is commonly confused with "savait", "souhait", "sentait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sautait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sautait" is \so.tɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sautait" come from?
"sautait" 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 "sautait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list