sais
/saɪs/noun, verb
sais is spelled S-A-I-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 44,209th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sais means “A groom, or servant with responsibility for the horses” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sais is saises.
How many letters and syllables are in sais?
| Letters | 4: S-A-I-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 44,209th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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 sais?
Sais appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 44,209th 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 sais?
- US /saɪs/
As a verb (“Used to represent a nonstandard pronunciation of says”): /seɪz/.
Sais 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-uk-sais.opus, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-sais_(says).wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with sais?
9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sais from its last stressed vowel (/aɪs/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: issa.
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 sais
- saises plural
- syce
- sice
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sais mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
IndiaA groom, or servant with responsibility for the horses.
THE DUTIES OF THE SAIS OR GROOM. […] Now, if the good house-mother's proudest boast is that not even "the cattle within her gate" fail to feel her kindly care, she will often find it necessary to take an active part in teaching the sais his
- 2
datedusually syce: chauffeur, driver.
verb
- 1
Used to represent a nonstandard pronunciation of says.
noun
- 1
informalSomeone from England; Englander
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does sais come from?
From Hindi (Hindustani), from Arabic سَائِس (sāʔis, “stableman, groom”), from سَاس (sās, “to tend a horse”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).