sauce: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 7 letter points · starts with S · ends with E
Meaning of sauce
noun
- countable, uncountable
A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
Example: apple sauce; mint sauce
- Australia, India, New-Zealand, UK, countable, uncountable
Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in
- countable, slang, uncountable
Alcohol, booze.
Example: Maybe you should lay off the sauce.
- countable, slang, uncountable
Vitality; capability or talent.
Example: It's over for that guy. He lost the sauce.
Listed forms: sauces, sawce.
Source: Wiktionary — sauce.
verb
To add sauce to; to season.
To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate.
To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
- colloquial
To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
Listed forms: sauces, saucing, sauced, sawce.
Source: Wiktionary — sauce.
noun
- Internet, alt-of, alternative
Alternative form of source, often used when requesting the source of an image or other posted material.
Base or related entry: source.
Listed forms: sauces, sawce.
Source: Wiktionary — sauce.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is sauce in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of sauce
S(1) + A(1) + U(1) + C(3) + E(1) = 7 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of sauce
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from sauce
17 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in sauce. Showing up to 24, longest first.