What does sausage mean?
Word: Sausage
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Sausage means minced meat or vegetables packed into a long, thin skin and cooked, often by frying or grilling.
How do you spell sausage?
Syllables: sau - sage
Tricky part: The first vowel sound is written au, not o, so sosage is a very common slip.
Watch out for: sosage, sossage
Memory tip: Sausages often come with sauce, and the two words start with the same three letters: s, a, u.
Sausage in a sentence
Example 1: We bought chicken sausages from the shop near our flat.
Example 2: The sausage sizzled and spat in the hot pan.
Example 3: Mia cut her sausage into small round pieces.
Fun Fact
The word sausage goes back to the Latin word salsus, meaning salted, because the meat was salted to keep it longer.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Champ
Choose the correct option to make a meaningful word:
sausa___
a) ge
b) gge
c) dge
d) je
Show answer
a) ge. The end is ge, just as in cabbage and village.
Spellacadabra
From which option does a letter need to be removed to make a meaningful word?
a) tomato
b) saussage
c) pepper
d) lemon
Show answer
b) saussage. Take away one s from the middle and the word is right: only one s comes after the au.
Sound Check
Which of the following words has the 'o' sound as in sausage?
a) dog
b) do
c) door
d) dough
Show answer
a) dog. In British English sausage begins with the short o of dog; dough, door and do sound different.
Spell Spies
Choose the misspelt word/s in the given sentence:
Grandma cooked a vegetable sausage for each of us as a special Sunday treet.
a) only treet
b) only vegetable
c) special and Sunday
d) sausage and treet
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a) only treet. Treat is spelt with ea; sausage in this sentence is correct.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which shape is a sausage most like?
a) a flat, round plate
b) a thin, square box
c) a long, smooth stick
d) a small, round ball
Show answer
c) a long, smooth stick
2. What might you eat with a sausage at lunch?
a) chocolate sauce
b) strawberry jam
c) vanilla custard
d) mashed potato
Show answer
d) mashed potato
