sursauter

\syʁ.so.te\

/\syʁ.so.te\/ verb

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The verdict

“sursauter” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,059. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#38,059
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire un sursaut, un mouvement brusque en étant surpris.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sursauter · sursauter · French

sursauter · rank #38,059 · 13 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #38,059
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH Suresnes

Nearest frequency peer: Suresnes (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « sursauter »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « sursauter » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

sursauter vs sursaut
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for sursauter
PropertyValue
Headwordsursauter
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\syʁ.so.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#38,059
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sursauter »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).sursauterse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Suresnes » (#38,058), « sympathisant » (#38,060), « surendettement » (#38,057). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sursauter » est au #38,059. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around sursauter (IPA \syʁ.so.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,059 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Faire un sursaut, un mouvement brusque en étant surpris.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for sursauter, with forms such as "srusauter", "ssursauter", and "surasuter". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "sursaut", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sursauter, spelled S-U-R-S-A-U-T-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faire un sursaut, un mouvement brusque en étant surpris.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how sursauter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Elle sursauta, voulut pivoter dans sa direction, et son coude heurta la fragile pyramide de gâteaux à la broche qui s’effondra dans un bruit sourd.
  2. Le lieutenant-colonel Andolenko, chef de corps du 5ᵉ régiment étranger d'infanterie, sursaute en apprenant la nouvelle. Il vient tout juste de débarquer pour prendre le commandement du sous-secteur de Turenne, et déjà on lui annonce que ses troupes sont accrochées, pratiquement au sortir de la ville.

Synonyms

faire le saut

This word in other languages

get up(English)levantarse(Español)aufstehen(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • srusauter
  • ssursauter
  • surasuter
  • surrsauter
  • sursatuer
  • sursauetr
  • sursauterr
  • sursautre
  • sursautter
  • surssauter
  • sursuater
  • susrauter
  • usrsauter

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sursauter - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

srusauter2ssursauter1surasuter2surrsauter1sursatuer2sursauetr2sursauterr1sursautre2
Edit distance from "sursauter"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sursauter"?
"sursauter" is spelled S-U-R-S-A-U-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \syʁ.so.te\.
What does "sursauter" mean?
As a verb, "sursauter" means: Faire un sursaut, un mouvement brusque en étant surpris.
What words are commonly confused with "sursauter"?
"sursauter" is commonly confused with "sursaut". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sursauter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sursauter" is \syʁ.so.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sursauter" come from?
"sursauter" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sursauter", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

tonalités#38,070sobrement#38,045touchdown#38,073réécouter#38,033

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

tempérer13 variantssculpter13 variantsrésorber13 variantsvoltigeur13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list