sory

noun

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"sory" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“sory” is uncommon English (frequency #86,772 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#86,772
frequency rank, English
6,566
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - green vitriol, or some earth impregnated with it

Corpus desk

Index EN-sory · sory · English

sory · rank #86,772 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #86,772
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,566
  • PHOTO-FINISH Speyside

Nearest frequency peer: Speyside (+2 rank slots)

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Long-tail ranks near “sory”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “sory” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sory
PropertyValue
Headwordsory
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#86,772
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “sory” in English

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).soryfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Rare peers in the same band: “Speyside” (#86,774), “spirally” (#86,776), “smudging” (#86,767). Among 6,566 “S” headwords, “sory” is #86,772. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sory is uncommon English at frequency #86,772 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "green vitriol, or some earth impregnated with it".

Zero misspellings are on record for sory in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin sory, from Ancient Greek σῶρυ (sôru, “a kind of ore”). The correct English form is sory, spelled S-O-R-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    green vitriol, or some earth impregnated with it

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sory, from Ancient Greek σῶρυ (sôru, “a kind of ore”).

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sory"?
"sory" is spelled S-O-R-Y.
What does "sory" mean?
As a noun, "sory" means: green vitriol, or some earth impregnated with it
What is the origin of the word "sory"?
Borrowed from Latin sory, from Ancient Greek σῶρυ (sôru, “a kind of ore”). See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sory", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Sibi#86,752Suda#86,805Senn#86,738Sule#86,806

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list