SaultvssautsTell them apart

Quick tell: Sault is a name, sauts is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Sault” is a name and “sauts” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#37,552
“Sault” frequency rank
#17,000
“sauts” frequency rank
54552
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Sault sauts
Definition Commune française, située dans le département du Vaucluse. Pluriel de saut.

Same sound, different letters: Sault vs sauts

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 4 letters.

5 ch
Sault
5 ch
sauts

Homophone desk: Sault vs sauts

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: Sault and sauts carry the same recorded pronunciation, \so\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is aname, the other anoun, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54552, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Sault is recorded at frequency rank #37,552, classified as aname, pronounced \so\. sauts is at rank #17,000, tagged as anoun, pronounced \so\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 54552, this pair ranks #133,257 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Sault vs sauts

Shared letters: astu. Private to "Sault": l. Private to "sauts": -.

"Sault" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC  ·  "sauts" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Saultasult · saullt · saultt · sautl · ssault · sualt
  • sautsasuts · satus · saust · sautss · sautts · ssauts · suats

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "Sault" and "sauts" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Sault" is a name and "sauts" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "Sault" or "sauts" show up more?
"sauts" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,000 in our French list, against #37,552 for "Sault". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've separated the homophone pair "Sault" / "sauts". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Sault" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "sauts" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #133,257 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Sault" and "sauts" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Sault vs skull". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #133,257 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list