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sat nav

noun, verb

sat nav is spelled S-A-T-N-A-V: 6 letters. As a noun, sat nav means “Alternative form of satnav” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sat nav is sat-navs or sat navs.

How many letters and syllables are in sat nav?

Letters6: S-A-T-N-A-V
In writinga phrase: the frequency list counts single words
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

Words people confuse with sat nav

Also written: satnav (one word or two).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of sat nav

  • sat-navs plural
  • sat navs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • sat navving participle, present
  • sat navved participle, past

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

What does sat nav mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    informalAlternative form of satnav.

verb

  1. 1

    informalTo navigate using satellite navigation system.

noun

as sat-nav
  1. 1

    Abbreviation of satellite navigation system.

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

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