vort
/vɔɹt/noun
vort is a noun meaning “A short Torah lesson, thought, or insightful saying, often shared at a wedding, gathering, or celebration” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-O-R-T, and it appears about once in every 51 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vort is vorts or vertlach.
What does vort mean?
noun
- 1
A short Torah lesson, thought, or insightful saying, often shared at a wedding, gathering, or celebration.
- 2
An engagement party in Orthodox Jewish communities.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vort?
- /vɔɹt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vort
- vorts plural
- vertlach plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vort?
Vort appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th 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).
Where does vort come from?
Borrowed from Yiddish וואָרט (vort, “word”). Doublet of word.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).