sautiller
\so.ti.je\
The verdict
“sautiller” is uncommon French (frequency #72,724 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,724
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire de petits sauts redoublés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sautiller · sautiller · French
sautiller · rank #72,724 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,724
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sautaient
Nearest frequency peer: sautaient (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “sautiller”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- sastre
sastre
27,280 corpus weight
- satisfais
satisfais
27,279 corpus weight
- sautaient
sautaient
27,278 corpus weight
- sautiller
sautiller
27,277 corpus weight
- sauveront
sauveront
27,276 corpus weight
- saya
saya
27,275 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “sautiller” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sautiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \so.ti.je\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,724 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “sautiller” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
sautiller is uncommon French at frequency #72,724 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \so.ti.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sautiller, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sautiller, spelled S-A-U-T-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire de petits sauts redoublés.
- 2…
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sautiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les pies, les moineaux sautillent au lieu de marcher.
Il lui prenait des envies folles de courir, et le soir, quand personne ne la voyait, elle sautillait à cloche-pied, comme une petite fille qui s’attarde à jouer, au lieu de rentrer à la maison.
Synonyms
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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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