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SARS

noun

SARS is a noun meaning “Acronym of severe acute respiratory syndrome; also Sars” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-A-R-S and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does SARS mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Acronym of severe acute respiratory syndrome; also Sars.

noun

as Sars
  1. 1

    Acronym of severe acute respiratory syndrome, also SARS.

noun

as SARs
  1. 1

    plural of SAR (a form of SAR)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce SARS?

  • Canada

SARS has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-PerfectSoundWhatever-SARS.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is SARS?

SARS appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 29,270th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

SARS in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense severe acute respiratory syndrome:

LanguageWords
FrenchSRAS
GermanSARS
PortugueseSARS
SpanishSRAS

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.