soubresaut
\su.bʁə.so\
The verdict
“soubresaut” is uncommon French (frequency #88,113 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,113
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Saut subit, inopiné.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soubresaut · soubresaut · French
soubresaut · rank #88,113 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,113
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sop
Nearest frequency peer: sop (-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 « soubresaut »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Solana
Solana
11,891 corpus weight
- solanum
solanum
11,890 corpus weight
- sop
sop
11,889 corpus weight
- soubresaut
soubresaut
11,888 corpus weight
- soudant
soudant
11,887 corpus weight
- souviendrons
souviendrons
11,886 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « soubresaut » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soubresaut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.bʁə.so\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #88,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « soubresaut » en français
Rare enough to double-check
soubresaut is uncommon French at frequency #88,113 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \su.bʁə.so\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for soubresaut in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is soubresaut, spelled S-O-U-B-R-E-S-A-U-T.
Definition
- 1Saut subit, inopiné.
- 2Tressaillement dû à une émotion.
- 3Type de saut élémentaire qui consiste à sauter à pieds joints en ratterrissant dans la même position.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soubresaut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et Jean-Marie, malgré la rafale, malgré les soubresauts du brick, grimpait au mât de misaine pour amarrer le hunier qui flottait au vent comme un drapeau.
Ces journées sans travail, où la tête seule marche et se fatigue, vous font un mauvais sommeil, plein de fièvres et de soubresauts.
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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