sausage

Other forms of sausage

plural

sausages·

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 sausage

What does sausage mean?

sausage means "highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sausage?

sausage has 2 syllables: sau-sage. The stress falls on "sau". In IPA it is /ˈsɔsədʒ/.

What is another word for sausage?

Close synonyms include blimp, sausage balloon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sausage a common word?

sausage 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.