sorting

Other forms of sorting

plural

sortings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sorting

What does sorting mean?

sorting means "an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sorting?

sorting has 2 syllables: sor-ting. The stress falls on "sor". In IPA it is /ˈsɔɹtɪŋ/.

What is another word for sorting?

Close synonyms include sort, classification, categorization, categorisation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sorting a common word?

sorting is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.