tressauter
French, verb/tʁɛ.so.te/
tressauter is spelled T-R-E-S-S-A-U-T-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 56 million words in written French, the 236,816th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tressauter is a French verb meaning “to jump, act jumpy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Être secoué soudainement et fortement par la surprise, par la crainte”.
What does tressauter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to jump, act jumpy
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Être secoué soudainement et fortement par la surprise, par la crainte.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tressauter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- tressautant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- tressauté participle past
- tressaute first-person indicative present
- tressautes indicative present second-person
- tressautons first-person indicative plural
- tressautez indicative plural present
- tressautent indicative plural present
- tressautais first-person imperfect indicative
- tressautait imperfect indicative singular
- tressautions first-person imperfect indicative
- tressautiez imperfect indicative plural
- tressautaient imperfect indicative plural
- tressautai first-person historic indicative
- tressautas historic indicative past
- tressauta historic indicative past
- tressautâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tressauter?
- /tʁɛ.so.te/
- /tʁe.so.te/
- \tʁe.so.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tressauter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tressauter in French?
tressauter appears about once in every 56 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).