sauter
\so.te\
The verdict
“sauter” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #3,800 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #3,800
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - S’élancer en l’air, soit pour retomber au même endroit, soit pour franchir un espace.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sauter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \so.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sauter” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sauter is 6 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \so.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,800 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 21 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for sauter, with forms such as "asuter", "satuer", and "sauetr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "suer", "super", "sauvé", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sauter, spelled S-A-U-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1S’élancer en l’air, soit pour retomber au même endroit, soit pour franchir un espace.
- 2Faire tomber, en jouant, hors de la table du billard, en passant par-dessus les bandes.
- 3Rétablir avec dextérité un jeu de cartes dans l’état où il était avant qu’on l’eût coupé.
- 4Cuire à feu vif en agitant de temps en temps la casserole.
- 5Exploser, se détruire d'un coup, voler en éclats.
- 6Faire faillite.
- 7Perdre son emploi ou sa place.
- 8Être supprimé.
- 9S’élancer avec vivacité sur quelqu’un, sur quelque chose.
- 10Parvenir d’une place inférieure à une place plus élevée, sans passer par les degrés intermédiaires.
- 11Passer subitement, rapidement d’une chose à une autre qui est différente, qui n’a point de liaison avec elle.
- 12Passer d’un chapitre, d’une phrase, d’un paragraphe à un autre, dans un texte sans s’arrêter à ce qui est entre les deux.
- 13Changer brusquement de direction.
- 14Franchir en s’élançant en l’air.
- 15Omettre, passer quelque chose en récitant, en lisant, en transcrivant, etc.
- 16Saillir, couvrir une jument.
- 17Posséder sexuellement.
- 18Arrêter.
- 19Avoir faim (expression "la sauter").
- 20Dépasser un véhicule, le doubler à vive allure, en déboitant au dernier moment.
- 21Passer une ville en la contournant.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asuter,satuer,sauetr,sauterr,sautre,sautter,ssauter,suater
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sauter - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “sauter”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-A-U-T-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \so.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “suer” - see the side-by-side comparison. sauter vs suer
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.