sortes

\sɔʁt\

/\sɔʁt\/ noun

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The verdict

“sortes” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,964. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,964
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sorte.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sortes · sortes · French

sortes · rank #3,964 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,964
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH Sophie

Nearest frequency peer: Sophie (-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 « sortes »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « sortes » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

sortes vs sorti
67% similar
sortes vs sorts
83% similar
sortes vs soute
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for sortes
PropertyValue
Headwordsortes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɔʁt\
Letters6
Frequency rank#3,964
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sortes »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.sortesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Sophie » (#3,963), « souffrance » (#3,965), « session » (#3,962). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sortes » est au #3,964. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around sortes (IPA \sɔʁt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,964 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de sorte.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for sortes, with forms such as "osrtes", "sorets", and "sorrtes". 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", "sorts", "soute", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sortes, spelled S-O-R-T-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de sorte.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how sortes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les midrashim des Amoraim, amplifiant le midrash des Tannaim, traitent de deux sortes d’influence relatives à Dieu, l’une positive et l’autre négative.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osrtes
  • sorets
  • sorrtes
  • sortess
  • sortse
  • sorttes
  • sotres
  • srotes
  • ssortes

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sortes - 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.

osrtes2sorets2sorrtes1sortess1sortse2sorttes1sotres2srotes2
Edit distance from "sortes"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sortes"?
"sortes" is spelled S-O-R-T-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔʁt\.
What does "sortes" mean?
As a noun, "sortes" means: Pluriel de sorte.
What words are commonly confused with "sortes"?
"sortes" is commonly confused with "sorti", "sorts", "soute". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sortes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sortes" is \sɔʁt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sortes" come from?
"sortes" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sortes", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Sophie#3,963savons#3,961tarifs#3,967répète#3,959

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

amateur9 variantsOntario9 variantsforcer9 variantsexcuses9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list