tressauter
\tʁe.so.te\
The verdict
“tressauter” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être secoué soudainement et fortement par la surprise, par la crainte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tressauter · tressauter · French
tressauter · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tressauter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁe.so.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
tressauter is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁe.so.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Être secoué soudainement et fortement par la surprise, par la crainte.".
tressauter has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tressauter, spelled T-R-E-S-S-A-U-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Être secoué soudainement et fortement par la surprise, par la crainte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tressauter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le traîneau filait avec une rapidité vertigineuse, et il se trouvait déjà très en avant du détachement. Mr. et Mrs. Joliffe tressautaient à chaque instant.
Il prit la troisième carte et tressauta d’étonnement.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.