sauce

Other forms of sauce

plural

sauces·

past tense

sauced·

present participle

saucing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sauce

What does sauce mean?

sauce means "behave saucily or impudently towards". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sauce?

sauce has 1 syllable: sauce. In IPA it is /ˈsɔs/.

Is sauce a common word?

sauce is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with sauce?

1 word rhymes with sauce. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.