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sass

UK /sæs/noun, verb

sass is spelled S-A-S-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 29,649th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sass means “The quality of being sassy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in sass?

Letters4: S-A-S-S
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 29,649th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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 sass?

Sass appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 29,649th 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 sass?

  • UK /sæs/

Sass 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-sass.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with sass?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sass from its last stressed vowel (/æs/, British pronunciation):

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 sass

  • sasses present, singular, he/she/it
  • sassing participle, present
  • sassed participle, past

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

What does sass mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The quality of being sassy.

    This girl has a lot of sass.

  2. 2

    USBacktalk, cheek, sarcasm.

  3. 3

    archaicVegetables used in making sauces.

  4. 4

    A subgenre of screamo music.

verb

  1. 1

    USinformalTo talk, to talk back.

  2. 2

    USinformalTo speak insolently to.

    Don’t sass your teachers!

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

Sass in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchculot, toupet (backtalk, cheek, sarcasm), contredire, protester, répondre (talk back)
GermanFrechheit, Unverschämtheit (backtalk, cheek, sarcasm)
Portugueseatrevimento (backtalk, cheek, sarcasm), responder (talk back)
Spanishdescaro, descoco, picaresca, procacidad (backtalk, cheek, sarcasm)

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 sass come from?

Variant of sauce.

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

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