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sorel

sorel noun: a young buck (deer) in the third year. Also the obsolete form of sorrel.

Noun

sorel (countable and uncountable, plural sorels)

  1. A young buck (deer) in the third year.
  2. A yellowish or reddish brown color; sorrel.

Proper noun capitalized: Sorel

Sorel (plural Sorels)

  1. A surname from French.

Also used as

sorel is also the obsolete form of sorrel.

Forms of sorel

Noun
pluralsorels
Proper noun
pluralSorels

Origin of sorel

From Old French sorel.

Borrowed from French Sorel, nickname for a person with reddish hair.

Words formed from sorel

Words that rhyme with sorel

5 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about sorel

What does sorel mean?
Sorel means a young buck (deer) in the third year.
What part of speech is sorel?
Sorel can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of sorel?
The plural of sorel is sorels.

Words near sorel in the dictionary

  1. sorehead
  2. soreheaded
  3. soreheads
  4. sorehearted
  5. sorehon
  6. sorel
  7. Sorelian
  8. Sorelianism
  9. Sorell
  10. Sorell Creek
  11. sorels

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sorel (page history and authors); Sorel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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