sauced
/sɔːst/
"sauced" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sauced” is uncommon English (frequency #92,042 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,042
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of sauce
Corpus desk
Index EN-sauced · sauced · English
sauced · rank #92,042 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,042
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sare
Nearest frequency peer: sare (-3 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “sauced”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sandpit
sandpit
7,965 corpus weight
- sangeet
sangeet
7,964 corpus weight
- Sapphic
Sapphic
7,963 corpus weight
- sare
sare
7,962 corpus weight
- sauced
sauced
7,959 corpus weight
- sconce
sconce
7,955 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sauced” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sauced |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /sɔːst/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,042 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sauced” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sauced is uncommon English at frequency #92,042 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /sɔːst/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of sauce".
sauced doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is sauced, spelled S-A-U-C-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of sauce
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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