sausage
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "sausage", 7-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "sausage" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "sausage" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
sausage is aEnglishnoun. It means: A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic casing. Pronounced /ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/. It ranks #9,668 in English word frequency. Often confused with savage and salvage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sausage |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for sausage is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,668 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for sausage, with forms such as "asusage", "sasuage", and "sauasge". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "savage", "salvage", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From late Middle English sawsiche, from Anglo-Norman sausiche (compare Norman saûciche), from Late Latin salsīcia (compare Sicilian sausizza, Spanish salchicha, Italian salsiccia), feminine of salsīcius (“seasoned with salt”), derivative of Latin salsus (“s… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is sausage, spelled S-A-U-S-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic casing.
- 2An individual item of this food.
- 3A sausage-shaped thing.
- 4A penis.
- 5A term of endearment.
- 6A saucisse.
- 7A dachshund; sausage dog.
- 8Ellipsis of sausage roll (“the dole; unemployment”).
Etymology
From late Middle English sawsiche, from Anglo-Norman sausiche (compare Norman saûciche), from Late Latin salsīcia (compare Sicilian sausizza, Spanish salchicha, Italian salsiccia), feminine of salsīcius (“seasoned with salt”), derivative of Latin salsus (“salted”), from sal (“salt”). More at salt. Doublet of saucisse. See also Sicilian sausizza. Displaced native Old English mearh.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asusage,sasuage,sauasge,sausaeg,sausagge,sausgae,saussage,ssausage,suasage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sausage
Misspelling Variants of "sausage"
Frequency rank: #9,668 in English
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