sors

/\sɔʁs\/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,546

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

sors is aFrenchnoun. It means: Oiseau de bas-vol qui n’a pas encore mué. Pronounced \sɔʁs\. It ranks #2,546 in French word frequency. Often confused with ss and sr.

Key facts for sors
PropertyValue
Headwordsors
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɔʁs\
Letters4
Frequency rank#2,546
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sors in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sors is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔʁs\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,546 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Oiseau de bas-vol qui n’a pas encore mué.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for sors, with forms such as "osrs", "sorrs", and "sorss". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ss", "sr", "sur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 sors, spelled S-O-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Oiseau de bas-vol qui n’a pas encore mué.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: osrs,sorrs,sorss,sosr,sros,ssors

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sors

Misspelling Variants of "sors"

osrs4sorrs5sorss5sosr4sros4ssors5
Misspelling Variants of "sors"

Frequency rank: #2,546 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sors"?
"sors" is spelled S-O-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔʁs\.
What does "sors" mean?
As a noun, "sors" means: Oiseau de bas-vol qui n’a pas encore mué.
What words are commonly confused with "sors"?
"sors" is commonly confused with "ss", "sr", "sur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sors"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sors" is \sɔʁs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sors" come from?
"sors" 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.