sorting

noun, verb

sorting is spelled S-O-R-T-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 4.1 times per million words in written English, the 12,764th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sorting means “Ordering” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sorting is sortings.

How many letters and syllables are in sorting?

Letters	7: S-O-R-T-I-N-G
Syllables	2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	4.1 times per million words; the 12,764th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

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).

How common is sorting?

Sorting appears 4.1 times per million words in written English, the 12,764th most frequent word form in the list.

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

How do you pronounce sorting?

Sorting 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-sorting.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of sorting

sortings plural

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

What does sorting mean?

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

noun

1
Ordering.
2
Categorizing.
3
UKMending.

verb

1
present participle and gerund of sort (a form of sort)