sautoir

/\so.twaʁ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#42,605

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

sautoir is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce de harnais de chevalier qui était attachée à la selle de son cheval. Pronounced \so.twaʁ\. Often confused with savoir and sauter.

Key facts for sautoir
PropertyValue
Headwordsautoir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\so.twaʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#42,605
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sautoir in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sautoir is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \so.twaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #42,605 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for sautoir, with forms such as "asutoir", "satuoir", and "sauotir". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "savoir", "sauter", "sautait", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 sautoir, spelled S-A-U-T-O-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pièce de harnais de chevalier qui était attachée à la selle de son cheval.
  2. 2
    Disposition de deux objets en X, en croix de saint André. On ne l’emploie guère que dans la locution en sautoir.
  3. 3
    Pièce honorable, réunion de la bande et de la barre.
  4. 4
    Long collier de perles ou d'autres matières qui descend très bas sur la poitrine (par analogie de forme avec la pièce de harnais du même nom).
  5. 5
    Espèce de casserole à bords droits et peu hauts, tourtière.
  6. 6
    Piste d’élan pour le saut en hauteur ou en longueur, le saut à la perche ou le triple saut.
  7. 7
    Tremplin pour le saut à ski.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: asutoir,satuoir,sauotir,sautior,sautoirr,sautori,sauttoir,ssautoir,suatoir

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sautoir

Misspelling Variants of "sautoir"

asutoir7satuoir7sauotir7sautior7sautoirr8sautori7sauttoir8ssautoir8
Misspelling Variants of "sautoir"

Frequency rank: #42,605 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sautoir"?
"sautoir" is spelled S-A-U-T-O-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \so.twaʁ\.
What does "sautoir" mean?
As a noun, "sautoir" means: Pièce de harnais de chevalier qui était attachée à la selle de son cheval.
What words are commonly confused with "sautoir"?
"sautoir" is commonly confused with "savoir", "sauter", "sautait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sautoir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sautoir" is \so.twaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sautoir" come from?
"sautoir" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.