sautant

\so.tɑ̃\

/\so.tɑ̃\/ adj

The verdict

“sautant” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,025. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#24,025
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
14
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui saute.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sautant · sautant · French

sautant · rank #24,025 · 10 variants · 14 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #24,025
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH réversible

Nearest frequency peer: réversible (-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 « sautant »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « sautant » 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).

sautant vs savant
71% similar
sautant vs sortant
71% similar
sautant vs sentant
71% similar

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

Key facts for sautant
PropertyValue
Headwordsautant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\so.tɑ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#24,025
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sautant »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).sautantse 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 « réversible » (#24,024), « sauvagement » (#24,026), « rétrograde » (#24,023). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sautant » est au #24,025. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around sautant (IPA \so.tɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #24,025 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sautant, with forms such as "asutant", "satuant", and "sauatnt". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "savant", "sortant", "sentant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is sautant, spelled S-A-U-T-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui saute.
  2. 2
    Qui s’exécute en sautant.
  3. 3
    Se dit d’un ovin (mouton, bélier, mouflon…) représenté rampant. Pour les caprins on utilisera plutôt saillant.
  4. 4
    Se dit d’un lion présenté comme rampant mais ayant les deux pattes arrière posées au sol (dans le cas du rampant strict, une seule patte est au sol, l’autre levée).

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Écartelé : au premier de gueules aux monts d’argent surmontés d’une aigle volante du même, au deuxième d’azur au sapin arraché d’or, au troisième d’azur au mouflon sautant d’or, au quatrième de gueules au château crénelé d’argent, qui est d’Évisa en Corse → voir illustration « mouflon sautant »

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asutant
  • satuant
  • sauatnt
  • sautannt
  • sautantt
  • sautatn
  • sautnat
  • sauttant
  • ssautant
  • suatant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sautant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

asutant2satuant2sauatnt2sautannt1sautantt1sautatn2sautnat2sauttant1
Edit distance from "sautant"

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 "sautant"?
"sautant" is spelled S-A-U-T-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \so.tɑ̃\.
What does "sautant" mean?
As an adjective, "sautant" means: Qui saute.
What words are commonly confused with "sautant"?
"sautant" is commonly confused with "savant", "sortant", "sentant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sautant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sautant" is \so.tɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sautant" come from?
"sautant" 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 "sautant", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list