sortie

/\sɔʁ.ti\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#623

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

sortie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de sortir. Pronounced \sɔʁ.ti\. It ranks #623 in French word frequency. Often confused with Syrie and sorts.

Key facts for sortie
PropertyValue
Headwordsortie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɔʁ.ti\
Letters6
Frequency rank#623
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sortie is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔʁ.ti\. Corpus data places it at rank #623 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for sortie, with forms such as "osrtie", "sorite", and "sorrtie". 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, "Syrie", "sorts", "sosie", 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 sortie, spelled S-O-R-T-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de sortir.
  2. 2
    Action de sortir.
  3. 3
    Issue, endroit par où l’on sort.
  4. 4
    Passage d’un lieu dans un autre, en parlant des marchandises qu’on transporte.
  5. 5
    Endroit où l’on va lorsque l’on sort pour ses loisirs.
  6. 6
    Édition ou parution d'une œuvre.
  7. 7
    Attaque que font les assiégés, lorsqu’ils sortent pour livrer bataille aux assiégeants et tenter de dégager la place.
  8. 8
    Vêtement que l’on porte pour sortir.
  9. 9
    Rude réprimande ; mots durs dits brusquement ; emportement.
  10. 10
    Action inhabituelle voire choquante.
  11. 11
    Course hippique considérée du point de vue d’un cheval qui y participe, prestation, épreuve.
  12. 12
    Signal ou puissance qu’un appareil délivre pour agir sur un autre élément.
  13. 13
    Point de raccordement physique sur un appareil où il délivre un signal ou une puissance (cf. 11 ci-dessus).
  14. 14
    Données renvoyées par une commande après son exécution.
  15. 15
    (aéronautique) Mission de combat accomplie par un appareil militaire.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: osrtie,sorite,sorrtie,sortei,sorttie,sotrie,srotie,ssortie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sortie

Misspelling Variants of "sortie"

osrtie6sorite6sorrtie7sortei6sorttie7sotrie6srotie6ssortie7
Misspelling Variants of "sortie"

Frequency rank: #623 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sortie"?
"sortie" is spelled S-O-R-T-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔʁ.ti\.
What does "sortie" mean?
As a noun, "sortie" means: Action de sortir.
What words are commonly confused with "sortie"?
"sortie" is commonly confused with "Syrie", "sorts", "sosie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sortie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sortie" is \sɔʁ.ti\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sortie" come from?
"sortie" 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.