Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sas

/sˈæs/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.47 in modern English

Syllables: sas
IPA: /sˈæs/

3

Scrabble Score

3

Letters

1

Syllables

2

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Initialism of Special Air Service.

Australian usage; New Zealand usage; British usage

name

Initialism of Scandinavian Airlines System; a joint Swedish, Norwegian and Danish airline company.

name

Initialism of Serial Attached SCSI, a computer bus standard for mainly connecting hard drives, but also used for other devices, derived from the SCSI and SATA standards.

name

Initialism of San Antonio Spurs, American basketball club.

noun

Initialism of stability augmentation system.

noun

Initialism of special assistance school.

Australian usage

noun

Initialism of secure attention sequence.

noun

Initialism of space adaptation syndrome.

Example Sentences

"The SAS are absolutely charming. Ruthless trained killers are just a phone call away."
"He was the last original member of the SAS, whose exploits were dramatised in the BBC series SAS: Rogue Heroes (2022), based on the 2016 book of the same name by Ben Macintyre."

Usage

Frequently Paired Words

SBS SCSI iSCSI SATA

Synonyms

special air service

Rhymes With

class first-class pass gas ass middle-class mass glass grass bass brass das

Questions

How do you pronounce sas?: The recorded pronunciation is /sˈæs/.
What does sas mean?: Initialism of Special Air Service.

How to pronounce sas

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