Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

special air service

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.92 in modern English

Syllables
spe-cial air ser-vice
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An elite unit of the British army. Similar units operate in the Australian and New Zealand armies.

Australian usage; New Zealand usage; British usage

Usage

Inflected Forms

the Special Air Service (canonical)

Synonyms

SAS

Questions

What does special air service mean?
An elite unit of the British army. Similar units operate in the Australian and New Zealand armies.

How to pronounce special air service

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