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4-letter words (5 found)

ORTS,ROST,ROTS,SORT,TORS,

3-letter words (5 found)

ORS,ORT,ROT,SOT,TOR,

2-letter words (5 found)

OR,OS,SO,ST,TO,

You can make 15 words from sort according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of sort

sort

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sôrt, IPA(key): /sɔːt/
  • (US) enPR: sôrt, IPA(key): /soɹt/
  • (General Australian, New Zealand) enPR: sôrt, IPA(key): /soːt/
  • (Scotland, Ireland) enPR: sôrt, IPA(key): /sɔɹt/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
  • Homophone: sought (non-rhotic)

Etymology 1

From Middle English sort, soort, sorte (cognate Dutch soort, German Sorte, Danish sort, Swedish sort), borrowed from Old French sorte (“class, kind”), from Latin sortem, accusative form of sors (“lot, fate, share, rank, category”).

Noun

sort (plural sorts)

  1. A general type.
  2. (archaic) Manner, way; form of being or acting.
  3. (obsolete) Condition above the vulgar; rank.
  4. (informal) A person evaluated in a certain way.
    good sort, bad sort
  5. (obsolete) Group, company.
  6. (British, Australia, informal) A good-looking woman.
  7. An act of sorting.
  8. (computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
  10. (typography) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
  11. (mathematics) A type.
  12. (obsolete) Fate, fortune, destiny.
  13. (obsolete) Anything used to determine the answer to a question by chance; lot.
  14. (obsolete) A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes or a suit of clothes.
Quotations
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:sort.
Synonyms
  • (type): genre, genus, kind, type, variety
  • (person): character, individual, person, type
  • (act of sorting): sort-out
  • (in computing): sort algorithm, sorting algorithm
  • (typography): glyph, type
  • See also Thesaurus:class
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English sorten, from Old French sortir (“to allot, sort”), from Latin sortīre (“draw lots, divide, choose”), from sors.

Verb

sort (third-person singular simple present sorts, present participle sorting, simple past and past participle sorted)

  2. (transitive) To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
    Synonyms: categorize, class, classify, group
  4. (transitive) To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
    Synonyms: order, rank
  5. (transitive) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
  6. (transitive, obsolete) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
  7. (transitive, obsolete) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
  8. (intransitive) To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
  9. (intransitive) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
  11. (British, colloquial, transitive) To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).
    Synonym: sort out
  12. (British, colloquial, transitive) To attack physically.
    Synonym: sort out
  13. (transitive) To geld.
Usage notes
  • In British sense “to fix a problem”, often used in constructions like “I’ll get you sorted” or “Now that’s sorted” – in American and Australian usage sort out is used instead.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations

Further reading

  • “sort”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “sort”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

References

Anagrams

  • RTOS, RTOs, TROs, orts, rost, rots, tors

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan sort, from Latin sors, sortem, from Proto-Italic *sortis, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“bind”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsɔrt]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈsɔɾt]
  • Rhymes: -ɔɾt

Noun

sort f (uncountable)

  1. luck
    sort amb tot ― good luck with everything
  2. fortune

Derived terms

References

  • “sort”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
  • “sort”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
  • “sort” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “sort” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse svartr (“black”), from Proto-Germanic *swartaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swerd- (“dirty, dark, black”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsoɐ̯d̥]

Adjective

sort

  1. black (color/colour)
  2. under the table; done in secret so as to avoid taxation
Inflection
Derived terms
  • (illicitly undisclosed): sort arbejde, sorte penge, sort marked
Descendants
  • Norwegian Bokmål: sort

Adverb

sort

  1. under the table; secretly, so as to avoid taxation
Derived terms
  • arbejde sort

See also

References

  • “sort,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French sorte (“class, kind”), from Latin sors (“lot, fate”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsɒˀd̥]

Noun

sort c (singular definite sorten, plural indefinite sorter)

  1. sort, kind
  2. quality
  3. brand
  4. (botany) cultivar
Declension

References

  • “sort,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Estonian

Etymology

From German Sorte.

Noun

sort (genitive sordi, partitive sorti)

  1. kind, sort, brand

Declension

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔʁ/
  • Homophone: sors
  • Rhymes: -ɔʁ

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French sort, from Latin sortem, from Proto-Italic *sortis, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”). Cf. also the borrowed doublet sorte.

Noun

sort m (plural sorts)

  1. fate, destiny (consequences or effects predetermined by past events or a divine will)
    Je suis tombé amoureux de lui depuis le premier jour où je l'ai vu. C'était le sort. ― I fell in love with him since the first day I laid eyes on him. It was destiny.
  2. lot (something used in determining a question by chance)
  3. spell (magical incantation)
Usage notes

Abstract nouns (a noun denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object) in French [and other Romance languages] use definite articles prior to the noun—unlike English. I.e. C'était le sort qui nous a réunis = It was fate that brought us together.

Derived terms
Related terms
  • sorcier
  • sorte
  • sortir

Etymology 2

See sortir.

Verb

sort

  1. third-person singular present indicative of sortir

Further reading

  • “sort”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Friulian

Alternative forms

  • sord (alternative orthography)

Etymology

From Latin surdus.

Adjective

sort

  1. deaf

Related terms

  • sordine

See also

  • mut

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʃort]
  • Rhymes: -ort

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English shorts.

Noun

sort (plural sortok)

  1. shorts (pants worn primarily in the summer that do not go lower than the knees)
Declension
Synonyms
  • rövidnadrág

Etymology 2

sor +‎ -t

Noun

sort

  1. accusative singular of sor
Derived terms
  • sort kerít

References

Icelandic

Noun

sort f (genitive singular sortar, nominative plural sortir)

  1. type, kind
    Synonyms: gerð, tegund
  2. (card games) suit

Declension

Further reading

  • “sort” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

Norman

Etymology

From Old French sort, from Latin sors, sortem.

Noun

sort m (plural sorts)

  1. (Jersey) fate

Synonyms

  • destinné (“fate, destiny”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Danish sort, from Old Danish sort, swort, swart, from Old Norse svartr, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swordo- (“dirty, dark, black”).

Alternative forms

  • svart

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /suʈ/
  • Rhymes: -uʈ

Adjective

sort (neuter singular sort, definite singular and plural sorte, comparative sortere, indefinite plural sortest, definite plural sorteste)

  1. black (color/colour)
  2. illegal; in avoidance of taxes

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French sorte.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔʈ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔʈ

Noun

sort m (definite singular sorten, indefinite plural sorter, definite plural sortene)

  1. a sort, kind or type

References

  • “sort” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French sorte.

Noun

sort m (definite singular sorten, indefinite plural sortar, definite plural sortane)

  1. a sort, kind or type

References

  • “sort” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Plautdietsch

Noun

sort f (plural Sorten)

  1. sort, kind, type, ilk, variety

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French sorte.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɔrt/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrt
  • Syllabification: sort

Noun

sort m inan

  1. (colloquial) sort (type)
    Synonyms: gatunek, rodzaj

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • sort in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • sort in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sorte.

Noun

sort n (plural sorturi)

  1. sort, kind, variety

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French sorte.

Pronunciation

Noun

sort c

  1. kind, sort

Usage notes

  • "A/<count> kind(s) of X" is expressed as "en/<count> sort(er)s X," and "what kind(s) of X" as "vad för sorts X."
  • Though traditionally considered incorrect, many native speakers will intuitively let the noun after sorts determine the gender rather than sort, for example saying "ett sorts hus" rather than "en sorts hus". See this question to Språket on Sveriges Radio.

Declension

Synonyms

  • slag

Derived terms

Related terms

  • sortera
  • sortiment

See also

  • sorts

References

  • sort in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • sort in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • sort in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
  • sort in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

  • Tors, orts, rost, rots, stor, tros

Source: wiktionary.org