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sawbuck

noun

sawbuck is spelled S-A-W-B-U-C-K: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sawbuck means “A framework for holding wood so that it can be sawed; a sawhorse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sawbuck is sawbucks.

How many letters and syllables are in sawbuck?

Letters7: S-A-W-B-U-C-K
In writingabout once in every 47 million words; the 211,986th most frequent word form
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).

How common is sawbuck?

Sawbuck appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th 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 sawbuck?

  • Australia

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-sawbuck.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of sawbuck

  • sawbucks plural
  • saw buck

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

What does sawbuck mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A framework for holding wood so that it can be sawed; a sawhorse.

  2. 2

    USslangA ten-dollar bill.

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

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