sal
/sɑːl/noun
sal is spelled S-A-L: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,368th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sal means “Shorea robusta, a dipterocarpaceous tree” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sal is sals.
How many letters and syllables are in sal?
| Letters | 3: S-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.0 times per million words; the 15,368th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is sal?
Sal appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,368th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce sal?
- /sɑːl/
As a noun (“Salt”): /sæl/.
Sal has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-sal.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with sal?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as sal.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: las, als, asl.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of sal
- sals plural
- shaal
- shala
- saul
- sal-
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sal mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Shorea robusta, a dipterocarpaceous tree.
- 2
obsoleteSalt.
- 3
Alternative form of sial.
noun
- 1
Alternative form of sal.
noun
- 1
Initialism of structural adjustment loan.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Shorea robusta, a dipterocarpaceous tree:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | sal |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does sal come from?
From Hindi साल (sāl), from Sanskrit शाल (śāla).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).