sautillant
\so.ti.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“sautillant” is uncommon French (frequency #66,330 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,330
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui sautille ; qui ne fait que sautiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sautillant · sautillant · French
sautillant · rank #66,330 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,330
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saved
Nearest frequency peer: saved (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « sautillant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- salamandres
salamandres
33,676 corpus weight
- Salamine
Salamine
33,675 corpus weight
- salas
salas
33,674 corpus weight
- sautillant
sautillant
33,671 corpus weight
- saved
saved
33,670 corpus weight
- scenic
scenic
33,668 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sautillant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sautillant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \so.ti.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #66,330 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sautillant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sautillant is uncommon French at frequency #66,330 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \so.ti.jɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sautillant, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is sautillant, spelled S-A-U-T-I-L-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui sautille ; qui ne fait que sautiller.
- 2Qualifie un style saccadé, haché, qui manque de suite et de gravité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sautillant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le gerfaut plane, la montagne est abrupte et déchirée. Aux flancs de ses plus hauts rochers, l’océan qui la couvrit de ses ondes amères a laissé la trace étoilée des coquilles, comme, sur le sable des grèves, se marquent les pas sautillants des oiseaux.
L'un d'eux, un petit homme au visage chafouin et au sourire figé, s'avança d'un petit pas sautillant vers les envoyés de Pékin. C'était le professeur Tcheng.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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