sauter

/\so.te\/ verb

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,800

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

sauter is aFrenchverb. It means: S’élancer en l’air, soit pour retomber au même endroit, soit pour franchir un espace. Pronounced \so.te\. It ranks #3,800 in French word frequency. Often confused with suer and super.

Key facts for sauter
PropertyValue
Headwordsauter
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\so.te\
Letters6
Frequency rank#3,800
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sauter in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sauter is 6 letters long, classified as averb, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for sauter, with forms such as "asuter", "satuer", and "sauetr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is sauter, spelled S-A-U-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    S’élancer en l’air, soit pour retomber au même endroit, soit pour franchir un espace.
  2. 2
    Faire tomber, en jouant, hors de la table du billard, en passant par-dessus les bandes.
  3. 3
    Rétablir avec dextérité un jeu de cartes dans l’état où il était avant qu’on l’eût coupé.
  4. 4
    Cuire à feu vif en agitant de temps en temps la casserole.
  5. 5
    Exploser, se détruire d'un coup, voler en éclats.
  6. 6
    Faire faillite.
  7. 7
    Perdre son emploi ou sa place.
  8. 8
    Être supprimé.
  9. 9
    S’élancer avec vivacité sur quelqu’un, sur quelque chose.
  10. 10
    Parvenir d’une place inférieure à une place plus élevée, sans passer par les degrés intermédiaires.
  11. 11
    Passer subitement, rapidement d’une chose à une autre qui est différente, qui n’a point de liaison avec elle.
  12. 12
    Passer 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.
  13. 13
    Changer brusquement de direction.
  14. 14
    Franchir en s’élançant en l’air.
  15. 15
    Omettre, passer quelque chose en récitant, en lisant, en transcrivant, etc.
  16. 16
    Saillir, couvrir une jument.
  17. 17
    Posséder sexuellement.
  18. 18
    Arrêter.
  19. 19
    Avoir faim (expression "la sauter").
  20. 20
    Dépasser un véhicule, le doubler à vive allure, en déboitant au dernier moment.
  21. 21
    Passer une ville en la contournant.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: asuter,satuer,sauetr,sauterr,sautre,sautter,ssauter,suater

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sauter

Misspelling Variants of "sauter"

asuter6satuer6sauetr6sauterr7sautre6sautter7ssauter7suater6
Misspelling Variants of "sauter"

Frequency rank: #3,800 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sauter"?
"sauter" is spelled S-A-U-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \so.te\.
What does "sauter" mean?
As a verb, "sauter" means: S’élancer en l’air, soit pour retomber au même endroit, soit pour franchir un espace.
What words are commonly confused with "sauter"?
"sauter" is commonly confused with "suer", "super", "sauvé". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sauter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sauter" is \so.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sauter" come from?
"sauter" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.