sorter
/sɔː.tə/noun, adverb
sorter is spelled S-O-R-T-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 67,454th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sorter means “A person employed to sort” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sorter is sorters.
How many letters and syllables are in sorter?
| Letters | 6: S-O-R-T-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words; the 67,454th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is sorter?
Sorter appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 67,454th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce sorter?
- /sɔː.tə/
- /sɔɹ.təɹ/
Sorter has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-sorter.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with sorter
Sounds like: sorta (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with sorter?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as sorter.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: resort, roster, storer.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of sorter
- sorters plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sorter mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person employed to sort.
- 2
A machine or algorithm that performs sorting.
adverb
- 1
Pronunciation spelling of sorta
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does sorter come from?
From sort + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).