sugar: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 6 letter points · starts with S · ends with R
Meaning of sugar
noun
- uncountable
A food consisting of small, sweet crystals, principally of sucrose, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used as sweetener and preservative.
- countable
Any specific variety of sugar.
- countable
Any of various small, water-soluble carbohydrates such as are used by organisms for energy and various other purposes.
- countable
A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.
Example: He usually has his coffee white with one sugar.
Listed forms: sugars, shugar.
Source: Wiktionary — sugar.
verb
- transitive
To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
Example: John heavily sugars his coffee.
- transitive
To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
Example: She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words.
- Canada, US, regional
In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the syrup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; with the preposition off.
To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.
Listed forms: sugars, sugaring, sugared, shugar.
Source: Wiktionary — sugar.
intj
Minced oath of shit.
Example: Oh, sugar!
Listed forms: shugar.
Source: Wiktionary — sugar.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for sugar.
noun
a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative
- refined sugar
noun
an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain
noun
informal terms for money
verb
sweeten with sugar
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is sugar in our word lists?
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
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Letter-value score of sugar
S(1) + U(1) + G(2) + A(1) + R(1) = 6 points.
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Anagrams of sugar
2 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from sugar
15 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in sugar. Showing up to 24, longest first.