sauté

\so.te\

/\so.te\/ adj

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The verdict

“sauté” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,780. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,780
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qu’on a fait sauter dans une poêle.

Corpus desk

Index FR-saute · sauté · French

sauté · rank #8,780 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,780
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH saurais

Nearest frequency peer: saurais (-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 « sauté »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « sauté » 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).

sauté vs ste
40% similar
sauté vs site
40% similar
sauté vs sure
40% similar

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

Key facts for sauté
PropertyValue
Headwordsauté
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\so.te\
Letters5
Frequency rank#8,780
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sauté »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).sautése 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 « saurais » (#8,779), « sobre » (#8,781), « sandwich » (#8,778). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sauté » est au #8,780. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around sauté (IPA \so.te\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,780 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qu’on a fait sauter dans une poêle.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for sauté, with forms such as "asuté", "satué", and "saute". 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, "ste", "site", "sure", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sauté, spelled S-A-U-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qu’on a fait sauter dans une poêle.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Un poulet sauté.
  2. Des pommes de terre sautées.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asuté
  • satué
  • saute
  • sautté
  • sauét
  • ssauté
  • suaté

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sauté - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

asuté2satué2saute1sautté1sauét2ssauté1suaté2
Edit distance from "sauté"

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 "sauté"?
"sauté" is spelled S-A-U-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \so.te\.
What does "sauté" mean?
As an adjective, "sauté" means: Qu’on a fait sauter dans une poêle.
What words are commonly confused with "sauté"?
"sauté" is commonly confused with "ste", "site", "sure". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sauté"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sauté" is \so.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sauté" come from?
"sauté" 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 "sauté", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

sobre#8,781stylo#8,785taxis#8,786tonne#8,787

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

rival7 variantsvitre7 variantsvomir7 variantsAhmed7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list