sortie

sort·ie/ˈsɔɹti/noun, verb

sortie is spelled S-O-R-T-I-E: 6 letters and 2 syllables (sort·ie). It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 46,473rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sortie means “An attack made by troops from a besieged position; a sally” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sortie is sorties.

How many letters and syllables are in sortie?

Letters	6: S-O-R-T-I-E
Syllables	2: sort·ie
In writing	about once in every 2 million words; the 46,473rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search
Rhymes with	sporty

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 sortie?

Sortie appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 46,473rd most frequent word form in the list.

sortie0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce sortie?

UK /ˈsɔːti/
US /ˈsɔɹti/
US [-ɾi]

Sortie has 2 syllables, split sort·ie in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-sortie.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with sortie?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sortie from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹti/):

sporty

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 sortie

sorties plural, present, singular, he/she/it
sortieing participle, present
sortied participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does sortie mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

1
An attack made by troops from a besieged position; a sally.
2
An operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft.
3
An act of venturing out to do a task, etc.
4
An act of trying to enter a new field of activity.
5
An attacking move.
6
An operational flight carried out by a spacecraft involving a return to Earth.
7
Synonym of sally port (“an entry to or opening into a fortification to enable a sally”).
8
A series of aerial photographs taken during the flight of an aircraft; (by extension) a photography session.

verb

1
To carry out a sortie; to sally.