salad bowl
"salad-bowl" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“salad bowl” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A bowl used for tossing and serving salad.
Corpus desk
Index EN-salad-bowl · salad bowl · English
salad bowl · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salad bowl |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “salad bowl” in English
Rare enough to double-check
salad bowl is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for salad bowl, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is salad bowl, spelled S-A-L-A-D- -B-O-W-L.
Definition
- 1A bowl used for tossing and serving salad.
- 2The silver bowl awarded to the winners of the Davis Cup.
- 3A metaphor for the way an intercultural society can integrate different cultures while maintaining their separate identities.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how salad bowl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
New York City can be considered a "salad bowl".
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.