Synonyms for sauce

Most common

seasoning · firewater · appetizer · condiment · juice

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

Definitions

1. n. 1

   Alcohol, booze.

   Maybe you should lay off the sauce.

2. n. 2

   A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.

3. n. 3

   Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in

   [meat] pie and [tomato] sauce

Related words

Word family

sauce-alone saucebox sauceless saucepan saucier

Phrases

secret sauce on the sauce white sauce hit the sauce soy sauce hot sauce pepper sauce béchamel sauce

Forms

Plural

sauces → seasonings, drinks, alcohols, liquors…

Example sentences

• seasoning The steak was delicious; the seasoning was perfect!
• appetizer Sami came out of the kitchen, holding an appetizer.
• condiment Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
• juice They say that beet juice can lower blood pressure.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters

grog¹, sowl

5 letters

drink¹, juice¹, booze¹

6 letters

liquor², relish²

7 letters

alcohol³

8 letters

tincture²

9 letters

seasoning³, appetizer⁴, condiment³, insolence³, firewater, appetiser, sauciness

12 letters

impertinence

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (liquor² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français

sauce

Italiano

salsa

Español

salsa

Deutsch

Brühe

Català

salsa