sortirent

\sɔʁ.tiʁ\

/\sɔʁ.tiʁ\/ verb

The verdict

“sortirent” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,061. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#42,061
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de sortir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sortirent · sortirent · French

sortirent · rank #42,061 · 14 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #42,061
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sourdes

Nearest frequency peer: sourdes (+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 « sortirent »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « sortirent » 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).

sortirent vs soutient
78% similar
sortirent vs sortiront
89% similar
sortirent vs sortent
78% similar

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

Key facts for sortirent
PropertyValue
Headwordsortirent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\sɔʁ.tiʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#42,061
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sortirent »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).sortirentse 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 « sourdes » (#42,062), « Sophocle » (#42,059), « souscriptions » (#42,063). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sortirent » est au #42,061. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around sortirent (IPA \sɔʁ.tiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #42,061 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de sortir.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for sortirent, with forms such as "osrtirent", "soritrent", and "sorrtirent". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "soutient", "sortiront", "sortent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sortirent, spelled S-O-R-T-I-R-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de sortir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Les 3 flics attablés se désattablèrent en quatrième vitesse et sortirent à la queue leu-leu façon petit train du plaisir.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osrtirent
  • soritrent
  • sorrtirent
  • sortiernt
  • sortirennt
  • sortirentt
  • sortiretn
  • sortirnet
  • sortirrent
  • sortrient
  • sorttirent
  • sotrirent
  • srotirent
  • ssortirent

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

osrtirent2soritrent2sorrtirent1sortiernt2sortirennt1sortirentt1sortiretn2sortirnet2
Edit distance from "sortirent"

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 "sortirent"?
"sortirent" is spelled S-O-R-T-I-R-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔʁ.tiʁ\.
What does "sortirent" mean?
As a verb, "sortirent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de sortir.
What words are commonly confused with "sortirent"?
"sortirent" is commonly confused with "soutient", "sortiront", "sortent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sortirent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sortirent" is \sɔʁ.tiʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sortirent" come from?
"sortirent" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list