sassy
sas·sy/ˈsæsi/adjective
sassy is spelled S-A-S-S-Y, 2 syllables: sas·sy. The wrong spelling people search most is sasy: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 46 of all searches for the word. Sassy is an adjective meaning “Bold and spirited, often towards someone in authority; cheeky; impudent; saucy”.
How many letters and syllables are in sassy?
| Letters | 5: S-A-S-S-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: sas·sy |
| In writing | 1.6 times per million words; the 22,073rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, sasy, about 80 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); 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 do you spell sassy?
Sassy is spelled S-A-S-S-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 46 of the searches for sassy in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is sassy?
Sassy appears 1.6 times per million words in written English, the 22,073rd most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Sassy, 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 sassy?
- UK /ˈsasi/
- US /ˈsæsi/
Sassy has 2 syllables, split sas·sy in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-sassy.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with sassy?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sassy from its last stressed vowel (/æsi/):
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 sassy
- sassier comparative
- sassiest superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sassy mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Bold and spirited, often towards someone in authority; cheeky; impudent; saucy.
- 2
Smart, fashionable; stylish; chic.
- 3
Lively, vigorous.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sassy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | effronté, insolent, impudent , allumeur |
| German | frech, keck, patzig, unverschämt , flott |
| Portuguese | atrevido, espevitado, ousado , corajoso |
| Spanish | descarado, fresco, pícaro, procaz, cachafaz, pillastre |
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 sassy come from?
A modification of saucy, equivalent to sass + -y, originally used in American English. First attested in 1799, but in common usage only as of the mid-19th century.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).