sortions
\sɔʁ.tjɔ̃\
The verdict
“sortions” is uncommon French (frequency #67,891 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,891
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de sortir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sortions · sortions · French
sortions · rank #67,891 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,891
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sorbets
Nearest frequency peer: sorbets (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « sortions »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Solal
Solal
32,113 corpus weight
- solennels
solennels
32,112 corpus weight
- sorbets
sorbets
32,111 corpus weight
- sortions
sortions
32,110 corpus weight
- Soulié
Soulié
32,109 corpus weight
- sout
sout
32,108 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sortions » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sortions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɔʁ.tjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,891 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sortions » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sortions is uncommon French at frequency #67,891 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sɔʁ.tjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sortions, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sortions, spelled S-O-R-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de sortir.
- 2Première personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de sortir.
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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