saute
French, noun
saute is a French feminine noun meaning “swing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of sauter. With an accent, sauté is a different word: “sauté (dish cooked by sautéing)”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Brusque changement”.
What does saute mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineswing
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
noun
- 1
masculinesauté (dish cooked by sautéing)
verb
- 1
past participle of sauter
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qu’on a fait sauter dans une poêle.
noun: 1. Plat consistant en morceaux (de viande, etc.) cuisinés à la poêle. 2. Personne qui a perdu le sens des réalités.
noun: 1. Brusque changement. 2. Dans un incendie ou un feu de forêt, projection de particules enflammées, de brandons, au-delà du front de feu, où elles forment des foyers secondaires.
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 saute
- sautés plural
- sautes plural
- sautée feminine
- sautées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is saute in French?
saute appears 9.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).