how to pronounce sass

/ˈsæs/

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sass is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of sass in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… Roger de Menezes muscle and sass but I …”

meanings of sass

noun:

Vegetables used in making sauces.
Backtalk, cheek, sarcasm.

verb:

To talk, to talk back.
To speak insolently to.

name:

A surname.
Initialism of Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets (a style sheet language).

sass frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word sass occurs in english on average 0.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics sass can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that sass can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;