sauter au cou
\so.te o ku\
The verdict
“sauter au cou” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Embrasser avec chaleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sauter-au-cou · sauter au cou · French
sauter au cou · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sauter au cou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \so.te o ku\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sauter au cou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sauter au cou is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \so.te o ku\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Embrasser avec chaleur.".
sauter au cou doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sauter au cou, spelled S-A-U-T-E-R- -A-U- -C-O-U.
Definition
- 1Embrasser avec chaleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sauter au cou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les trois frères avaient sauté au cou de leur père, fous de bonheur, et Abraham s’était empressé d’essayer ses bottes.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.