diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v3.0.0.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v3.0.0.rst
index c5c886912eae0..3ee1cf8eb6aae 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v3.0.0.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v3.0.0.rst
@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ Other API changes
 - :func:`read_table`'s ``parse_dates`` argument defaults to ``None`` to improve consistency with :func:`read_csv` (:issue:`57476`)
 - Made ``dtype`` a required argument in :meth:`ExtensionArray._from_sequence_of_strings` (:issue:`56519`)
 - Passing a :class:`Series` input to :func:`json_normalize` will now retain the :class:`Series` :class:`Index`, previously output had a new :class:`RangeIndex` (:issue:`51452`)
+- Removed :meth:`Index.sort` which always raised a ``TypeError``. This attribute is not defined and will raise an ``AttributeError`` (:issue:`59283`)
 - Updated :meth:`DataFrame.to_excel` so that the output spreadsheet has no styling. Custom styling can still be done using :meth:`Styler.to_excel` (:issue:`54154`)
 - pickle and HDF (``.h5``) files created with Python 2 are no longer explicitly supported (:issue:`57387`)
 - pickled objects from pandas version less than ``1.0.0`` are no longer supported (:issue:`57155`)
diff --git a/pandas/core/indexes/base.py b/pandas/core/indexes/base.py
index 5bffac5fa64b6..701a872bd918c 100644
--- a/pandas/core/indexes/base.py
+++ b/pandas/core/indexes/base.py
@@ -5779,13 +5779,6 @@ def sort_values(
         else:
             return sorted_index
 
-    @final
-    def sort(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        """
-        Use sort_values instead.
-        """
-        raise TypeError("cannot sort an Index object in-place, use sort_values instead")
-
     def shift(self, periods: int = 1, freq=None) -> Self:
         """
         Shift index by desired number of time frequency increments.
diff --git a/pandas/tests/indexes/test_any_index.py b/pandas/tests/indexes/test_any_index.py
index 284e219fd20e4..e1ed96195e0a7 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/indexes/test_any_index.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/indexes/test_any_index.py
@@ -22,12 +22,6 @@ def test_boolean_context_compat(index):
         bool(index)
 
 
-def test_sort(index):
-    msg = "cannot sort an Index object in-place, use sort_values instead"
-    with pytest.raises(TypeError, match=msg):
-        index.sort()
-
-
 def test_hash_error(index):
     with pytest.raises(TypeError, match=f"unhashable type: '{type(index).__name__}'"):
         hash(index)