sauter le pas
\so.te lə pɑ\
The verdict
“sauter le pas” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se décider à faire une chose ou prendre un parti hasardeux, après avoir longtemps hésité.
| 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) |
Where “sauter le pas” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sauter le pas is 13 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \so.te lə pɑ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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.
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Using “sauter le pas”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-A-U-T-E-R- -L-E- -P-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \so.te lə pɑ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.