# sausage vs savage

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### sausage
*noun · IPA /ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/ · frequency rank #9,668*
A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic casing.

### savage
*adjective · IPA /ˈsævɪd͡ʒ/ · frequency rank #6,616*
Wild; not cultivated or tamed.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sausage-vs-savage