sauteur
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#51,736
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
sauteur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Danseur de corde, dont la profession est de faire des sauts et des tours de force. Artiste de cirque, saltimbanque. Pronounced \so.tœʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sauteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \so.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sauteur is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \so.tœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #51,736 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for sauteur in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 sauteur, spelled S-A-U-T-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Danseur de corde, dont la profession est de faire des sauts et des tours de force. Artiste de cirque, saltimbanque.
- 2Cheval dressé à exécuter les différents sauts.
- 3Celui qui fait du saut à ski.
- 4Forniqueur ; homme ayant une forte activité sexuelle.
- 5Personne qui change d’opinion quand son intérêt le lui demande.
- 6Personne peu sérieuse, qui manque à ses engagements.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #51,736 in French
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