tressauter
\tʁe.so.te\
The verdict
“tressauter” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Être secoué soudainement et fortement par la surprise, par la crainte.
| 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) |
Where “tressauter” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tressauter is 10 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁe.so.te\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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.
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Using “tressauter”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-R-E-S-S-A-U-T-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tʁe.so.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.