sales

/[seɪlz]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#13,929

in German word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

sales is aGermannoun. It means: Plural des Substantivs sale Pronounced [seɪlz]. Often confused with SAS and ses.

Key facts for sales
PropertyValue
Headwordsales
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[seɪlz]
Letters5
Frequency rank#13,929
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sales in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for sales is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [seɪlz]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,929 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Plural des Substantivs sale".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for sales, with forms such as "asles", "saels", and "saless". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SAS", "ses", "sass", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is sales, spelled S-A-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plural des Substantivs sale

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: asles,saels,saless,salles,salse,slaes,ssales

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sales

Misspelling Variants of "sales"

asles5saels5saless6salles6salse5slaes5ssales6
Misspelling Variants of "sales"

Frequency rank: #13,929 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sales"?
"sales" is spelled S-A-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is [seɪlz].
What does "sales" mean?
As a noun, "sales" means: Plural des Substantivs sale
What words are commonly confused with "sales"?
"sales" is commonly confused with "SAS", "ses", "sass". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sales"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sales" is [seɪlz]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sales" come from?
"sales" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby German words

Other entries that begin with the letter S in our German index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.