Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unsort

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-sort
IPA

6

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To sort out; to resolve.

Transitive verb

verb

To shuffle a data structure so that it is no longer sorted.

Example Sentences

"In his letter to Virginia's governor excerpted below, Rolfe tries to unsort the mixture of motives that led to his decision to marry Pocahantas."
"I try to unsort this big tangle of things that all of a sudden I've tripped over."
"And what if we want to unsort an array? The shuffle ( ) function uses PHP's random number generator to re-arrange the elements of an array randomly."

Etymology

From un- + sort, apparently by confusion of unravel, untangle or similar and sort.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

unsorts (present, singular) unsorting (participle, present) unsorted (participle, past) unsorted (past)

Questions

What does unsort mean?: To sort out; to resolve.
Where does unsort come from?: From un- + sort, apparently by confusion of unravel, untangle or similar and sort.

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