sort
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#747
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sort is aFrenchnoun. It means: La destinée considérée comme cause des divers événements de la vie. Pronounced \sɔʁ\. It ranks #747 in French word frequency. Often confused with st and sr.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #747 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sort is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #747 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for sort, with forms such as "osrt", "sorrt", and "sortt". 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, "st", "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 sort, spelled S-O-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1La destinée considérée comme cause des divers événements de la vie.
- 2Effet de la destinée ou de la rencontre fortuite des événements bons ou mauvais.
- 3Condition ou état d’une personne sous le rapport de la richesse.
- 4Condition des choses, ce qu'il leur advient.
- 5Manière de décider quelque chose par le hasard.
- 6Ensemble de paroles, de regards, de caractères, de maléfices par lesquels, suivant une croyance superstitieuse, on peut produire des effets extraordinaires, et presque toujours malfaisants.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osrt,sorrt,sortt,sotr,srot,ssort
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sort
Misspelling Variants of "sort"
Frequency rank: #747 in French
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