sortie de secours

/\sɔʁ.ti də sə.kuʁ\/ noun

Letters

17 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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sortie de secours is aFrenchnoun. It means: Issue aménagée pour une évacuation rapide en cas d’urgence, telle qu’un incendie. Pronounced \sɔʁ.ti də sə.kuʁ\.

Key facts for sortie de secours
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Headwordsortie de secours
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɔʁ.ti də sə.kuʁ\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

sortie de secours is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sortie de secours is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔʁ.ti də sə.kuʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Issue aménagée pour une évacuation rapide en cas d’urgence, telle qu’un incendie.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sortie de secours in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 de secours, spelled S-O-R-T-I-E- -D-E- -S-E-C-O-U-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Issue aménagée pour une évacuation rapide en cas d’urgence, telle qu’un incendie.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sortie de secours"?
"sortie de secours" is spelled S-O-R-T-I-E- -D-E- -S-E-C-O-U-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔʁ.ti də sə.kuʁ\.
What does "sortie de secours" mean?
As a noun, "sortie de secours" means: Issue aménagée pour une évacuation rapide en cas d’urgence, telle qu’un incendie.
How do you pronounce "sortie de secours"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sortie de secours" is \sɔʁ.ti də sə.kuʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sortie de secours" come from?
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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.