sauter le pas
\so.te lə pɑ\
The verdict
“sauter le pas” 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) - Se décider à faire une chose ou prendre un parti hasardeux, après avoir longtemps hésité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sauter-le-pas · sauter le pas · French
sauter le pas · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 le pas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \so.te lə pɑ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sauter le pas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sauter le pas is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \so.te lə pɑ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se décider à faire une chose ou prendre un parti hasardeux, après avoir longtemps hésité.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sauter le pas, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sauter le pas, spelled S-A-U-T-E-R- -L-E- -P-A-S.
Definition
- 1Se décider à faire une chose ou prendre un parti hasardeux, après avoir longtemps hésité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sauter le pas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand Jacques se fut enfin décidé à sauter le pas, il ne resta plus qu’une difficulté, celle de religion, et qui se trouva légère.
Un jour, il faudra que tu sautes le pas. Seize ans et toujours vierge, quelle honte !
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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.