être de sortie

/\ɛtʁ də sɔʁ.ti\/ verb

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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être de sortie is aFrenchverb. It means: Se retrouver exceptionnellement à l’extérieur : quitter sa maison pour une personne, être utilisé pour un objet. Pronounced \ɛtʁ də sɔʁ.ti\.

Key facts for être de sortie
PropertyValue
Headwordêtre de sortie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛtʁ də sɔʁ.ti\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

être de sortie is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for être de sortie is 14 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛtʁ də sɔʁ.ti\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for être de sortie in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is être de sortie, spelled Ê-T-R-E- -D-E- -S-O-R-T-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Se retrouver exceptionnellement à l’extérieur : quitter sa maison pour une personne, être utilisé pour un objet.
  2. 2
    Sortir pour rencontrer d’autres personnes et prendre du bon temps.
  3. 3
    Être hors-service.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "être de sortie"?
"être de sortie" is spelled Ê-T-R-E- -D-E- -S-O-R-T-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛtʁ də sɔʁ.ti\.
What does "être de sortie" mean?
As a verb, "être de sortie" means: Se retrouver exceptionnellement à l’extérieur : quitter sa maison pour une personne, être utilisé pour un objet.
How do you pronounce "être de sortie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "être de sortie" is \ɛtʁ də sɔʁ.ti\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "être de sortie" come from?
"être de sortie" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.