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
Acronym of severe acute respiratory syndrome; also Sars.
noun
- 1
Acronym of severe acute respiratory syndrome, also SARS.
noun
- 1
plural 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:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | SRAS |
| German | SARS |
| Portuguese | SARS |
| Spanish | SRAS |
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.