sortait
\sɔʁ.tɛ\
The verdict
“sortait” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,040. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,040
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de sortir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sortait · sortait · French
sortait · rank #8,040 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,040
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH smartphones
Nearest frequency peer: smartphones (-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 « sortait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sentier
sentier
91,964 corpus weight
- servait
servait
91,963 corpus weight
- smartphones
smartphones
91,962 corpus weight
- sortait
sortait
91,961 corpus weight
- Stanley
Stanley
91,960 corpus weight
- survivants
survivants
91,958 corpus weight
What this shows « sortait » 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 | sortait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɔʁ.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,040 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sortait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sortait (IPA \sɔʁ.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,040 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de sortir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sortait, with forms such as "osrtait", "soratit", and "sorrtait". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sorti", "sortir", "sortie", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sortait, spelled S-O-R-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de sortir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sortait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On l’avait allongé sur une petite échelle utilisée comme civière, et il avait fallu que ses collègues restés dehors le protégeassent par un tir de rafale pour empêcher Bobby de l’atteindre à nouveau alors qu’on le sortait.
L’humidité, moi, elle me sortait par le nez, et les gens, ils me sortaient par les yeux.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osrtait
- soratit
- sorrtait
- sortaitt
- sortati
- sortiat
- sorttait
- sotrait
- srotait
- ssortait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sortait - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).