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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

special sauce

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English

Syllables
spe-cial sauce
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A basic ingredient in McDonald's Big Mac hamburgers, a sort of Thousand Island dressing (now called Big Mac sauce by the company).

Uncountable

noun

Burger sauce.

Uncountable

noun

Synonym of secret sauce.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

Usage

Inflected Forms

special sauces (plural)

Synonyms

secret sauce

Questions

What does special sauce mean?
A basic ingredient in McDonald's Big Mac hamburgers, a sort of Thousand Island dressing (now called Big Mac sauce by the company).

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