sac
/sæk/noun, verb
sac is spelled S-A-C: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 4.7 times per million words in written English, the 11,685th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “sac vs sack” about 390 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, sac means “A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sac is sacs.
How many letters and syllables are in sac?
| Letters | 3: S-A-C |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.7 times per million words; the 11,685th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is sac?
Sac appears 4.7 times per million words in written English, the 11,685th 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).
How do you pronounce sac?
- /sæk/
Sac 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: En-us-sack.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with sac
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: sack (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: sack.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with sac?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as sac.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: cas, asc.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of sac
- sacs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- sacking participle, present
- saccing participle, present
- sacked participle, past
- sacced participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sac mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.
- 2
informalA sacrifice.
Kasparov's queen sac early in the game gained him a positional advantage against Kramnik.
- 3
UKThe privilege, formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines; now used only in the phrase sac and soc or soc and sac.
verb
- 1
informalTo sacrifice.
Kasparov sacked his queen early on in the game to gain a positional advantage against Kramnik.
noun
- 1
Acronym of senior aircraftman.
- 2
Initialism of saeculum ante Christum (“era before Christ”).
noun
- 1
Alternative form of Sauk.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does sac come from?
Borrowed from French sac. Doublet of saccus, sack, saco, and sakkos.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).