sauterie
French, noun/so.tʁi/
sauterie is spelled S-A-U-T-E-R-I-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written French, the 96,749th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sauterie is a French feminine noun meaning “hop (informal dance meeting)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Au XVIᵉ siècle, pendant les guerres de religion, une sauterie consistait à précipiter les ennemis prisonniers…”.
What does sauterie mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininehop (informal dance meeting)
- 2
feminineceremony, do
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Au XVIᵉ siècle, pendant les guerres de religion, une sauterie consistait à précipiter les ennemis prisonniers du haut de remparts ou de falaises. 2. Série de petits sauts, sautillement. 3. Réunion dansante d’un caractère simple et intime, sans cérémonie. 4. Cérémonie.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sauterie
- sauteries plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sauterie?
- /so.tʁi/
- \sot.ʁi\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sauterie
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sauterie in French?
sauterie appears about once in every 9 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).