salable
"salable" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“salable” is uncommon English (frequency #88,805 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,805
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of saleable.
Corpus desk
Index EN-salable · salable · English
salable · rank #88,805 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,805
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sabot
Nearest frequency peer: sabot (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “salable”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Rybak
Rybak
11,201 corpus weight
- sabot
sabot
11,197 corpus weight
- salable
salable
11,196 corpus weight
- Salafism
Salafism
11,195 corpus weight
- sando
sando
11,193 corpus weight
- sargasso
sargasso
11,190 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “salable” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salable |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “salable” in English
Rare enough to double-check
salable is uncommon English at frequency #88,805 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of saleable.".
No misspelling variants are generated for salable in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is salable, spelled S-A-L-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of saleable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how salable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The landlord [...] stripped the plumbing and electrics, anything salable.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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