saga
/ˈsɑɡə/noun
saga is spelled S-A-G-A: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 7.4 times per million words in written English, the 8,669th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Saga, the name). As a noun, saga means “An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of saga is sagas.
How many letters and syllables are in saga?
| Letters | 4: S-A-G-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.4 times per million words; the 8,669th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is saga?
Saga appears 7.4 times per million words in written English, the 8,669th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Saga, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce saga?
- British /ˈsɑːɡə/
- US /ˈsɑɡə/
- Australia /ˈsɐːɡə/
Saga has 2 syllables (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)-Vealhurl-saga.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with saga?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as saga (/ɑɡə/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: saag.
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 saga
- sagas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does saga mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
- 2
Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.
- 3
plural of sagum
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Saga in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 saga come from?
From Old Norse saga (“epic tale, story”), from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to say”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).