Definitions for sortie

sortie sor·tie

Spelling: [sawr-tee]
IPA: /ˈsɔr ti/

Sortie is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 155 anagrams from letters in sortie (eiorst).

Definitions for sortie

noun

  1. a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
  2. a body of troops involved in such a movement.
  3. the flying of an airplane on a combat mission.

verb (used without object)

  1. to go on a sortie; sally forth.

Origin of sortie

1680-90; French, noun use of feminine past participle of sortir to go out

Examples for sortie

But the British have retreated, you say, and there was a sortie from the fort?

The question of a sortie began now to be seriously discussed.

There was no mistaking the ardour with which the soldiers prepared for the sortie.

She had not been there many hours when, in a sortie, the French were repulsed.

All the signs pointed to a sortie in force from the fortifications.

Parbleu, they must have had terrible work there since the sortie began.

Boone was wounded, and very nearly lost his life, in a sortie.

My grandfather, his father, was a WW1 ace and was on the sortie which downed the Red Baron.

He told Thorvald what he had noted on the night of their sortie.

It was difficult to reply to this, for a sortie was out of the question.

Word Value for sortie
Scrable

6

Words with friends

6

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