sautillement
French, noun\so.tij.mɑ̃\
sautillement is spelled S-A-U-T-I-L-L-E-M-E-N-T (12 letters) and appears about once in every 69 million words in written French, the 261,491st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sautillement is a French masculine noun meaning “hopping, skipping” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de sautiller, d’avancer en faisant de petits sauts”.
What does sautillement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehopping, skipping
- 2
masculinehop, skip
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de sautiller, d’avancer en faisant de petits sauts.
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 sautillement
- sautillements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sautillement?
- \so.tij.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sautillement in French?
sautillement appears about once in every 69 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).