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sag

/sæɡ/noun, verb

sag is spelled S-A-G: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,906th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sag means “The state of sinking or bending; a droop” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sag is sags.

How many letters and syllables are in sag?

Letters3: S-A-G
Syllables1
In writing1.8 times per million words; the 20,906th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is sag?

Sag appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,906th 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 sag?

  • US /sæɡ/
  • British /saɡ/
  • Australia /sæːɡ/

Sag has one syllable.

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

What rhymes with sag?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sag from its last stressed vowel (/æɡ/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: gas.

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 sag

  • sags plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • sagging participle, present
  • sagged participle, past

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

What does sag mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The state of sinking or bending; a droop.

  2. 2

    A depression or dip in anything.

  3. 3

    A place where the surface of the earth, a mountain range, a ridge, etc., sinks or droops.

  4. 4

    The difference in elevation of a wire, cable, chain or rope suspended between two consecutive points.

  5. 5

    The difference in height or depth between the vertex and the rim of a curved surface, specifically used for optical elements such as a mirror or lens.

  6. 6

    A region or spot where the skin has lost some of its elasticity and droops or hangs down.

  7. 7

    A person with sagging skin.

  8. 8

    Alternative form of saag.

verb

  1. 1

    To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane.

    A line or cable supported by its ends sags, even if it is tightly drawn.

  2. 2

    To lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position.

    A building may sag one way or another.

  3. 3

    To lose firmness, elasticity, vigor, or a thriving state; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.

  4. 4

    To fail to sustain interest; to be boring.

    The movie really sags after the chase scene.

  5. 5

    To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.

  6. 6

    To cause to bend or give way; to load.

  7. 7

    informalTo wear one's trousers, shorts, etc., so that their top is well below the waist.

    He sags his pants real low.

  8. 8

    informalTo be worn so that the top is well below the waist.

    His pants were sagging low.

phrase

as SAG
  1. 1

    Initialism of Saint Anthony guide.

noun

as SAG
  1. 1

    Initialism of straight-acting gay.

noun

as Sag
  1. 1

    informalClipping of Sagittarius.

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

Sag in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Portuguesecedimento, afundamento (state of sinking or bending), afundar (to sink), ceder (to lose firmness)
Spanishcaída, caimiento, colgamiento (state of sinking or bending), ahondar (to sink), flecha (difference in elevation)
Frenchployer (to sink), s'affaisser (to lose firmness), flèche (difference in elevation)
Germandurchhängen (to sink), ausleiern (to lose firmness), einsinken, absinken (to give way from a vertical position), schlendern (to loiter in walking)

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.

Where does sag come from?

From earlier sag, sagg, sack, from Middle English saggen, probably from Middle Low German sacken (“to sink, drift”), ultimately of North Germanic/Scandinavian/Old Norse origin, akin to Old Norse søkkva (“to sink”), a denasalized derivative of Proto-Germanic *sankwijaną (“to cause to sink”), related to Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną (“to sink”).

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

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