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sausage

/ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/noun, verb

sausage is spelled S-A-U-S-A-G-E: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 6.3 times per million words in written English, the 9,594th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sausage 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…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sausage is sausages.

How many letters and syllables are in sausage?

Letters7: S-A-U-S-A-G-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing6.3 times per million words; the 9,594th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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 sausage?

Sausage appears 6.3 times per million words in written English, the 9,594th 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 sausage?

  • UK /ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/
  • US /ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/
  • /ˈsɑsɪd͡ʒ/

Sausage has 2 syllables (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: En-us-sausage.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with sausage?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as sausage (/ɔsɪdʒ/).

Spelled with the same letters in another order: assuage.

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 sausage

  • sausages plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • sausaging participle, present
  • sausaged participle, past

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

What does sausage mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    An individual item of this food.

  3. 3

    A sausage-shaped thing.

  4. 4

    slangvulgarA penis.

  5. 5

    informalA term of endearment.

    my little sausage

  6. 6

    archaicA saucisse.

  7. 7

    A dachshund; sausage dog.

  8. 8

    slangEllipsis of sausage roll (“the dole; unemployment”).

    I got fired and I'm back on the sausage again.

verb

  1. 1

    To squeeze (something) tightly into in a rolled or sausage-like form.

  2. 2

    To squeeze (something) into something tightly fitting.

  3. 3

    To fit snugly into.

  4. 4

    To make into sausage.

  5. 5

    To make sausage-like, especially to give the appearance of barely fitting into the casing or skin.

  6. 6

    To form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.

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

Sausage in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchsaucisse (a food made of minced meat packed into a…), saucisson (individual item)
GermanWurst (a food made of minced meat packed into a…), Würstchen (individual item)
Portuguesesalsicha, linguiça (a food made of minced meat packed into a…), salsichão (sausage-shaped thing)
Spanishembutido, salchicha, salchichón (a food made of minced meat packed into a…)

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 sausage come from?

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.

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

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