sortaient
\sɔʁ.tɛ\
The verdict
“sortaient” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,686. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,686
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de sortir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sortaient · sortaient · French
sortaient · rank #19,686 · 13 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,686
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soignant
Nearest frequency peer: soignant (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « sortaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- slovaque
slovaque
80,318 corpus weight
- Socrate
Socrate
80,317 corpus weight
- soignant
soignant
80,316 corpus weight
- sortaient
sortaient
80,315 corpus weight
- souri
souri
80,314 corpus weight
- souviendra
souviendra
80,313 corpus weight
What this shows « sortaient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sortaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɔʁ.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sortaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around sortaient (IPA \sɔʁ.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,686 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de sortir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for sortaient, with forms such as "osrtaient", "soratient", and "sorrtaient". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "sortant", "sortent", "sortait", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sortaient, spelled S-O-R-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de sortir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sortaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On ne permettait pas de désassoler ; cette précaution était dans l’intérêt du sol du propriétaire et même dans celui du fermier, de la famille duquel les fermes sortaient peu, parce qu’elles assuraient son existence.
L’humidité, moi, elle me sortait par le nez, et les gens, ils me sortaient par les yeux.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osrtaient
- soratient
- sorrtaient
- sortaeint
- sortaiennt
- sortaientt
- sortaietn
- sortainet
- sortiaent
- sorttaient
- sotraient
- srotaient
- ssortaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sortaient - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).