salah
/səˈlɑː/
"salah" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“salah” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #22,498. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,498
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of salat.
Corpus desk
Index EN-salah · salah · English
salah · rank #22,498 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,498
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH rung
Nearest frequency peer: rung (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “salah”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Rohan
Rohan
77,507 corpus weight
- rudder
rudder
77,506 corpus weight
- rung
rung
77,504 corpus weight
- salah
salah
77,503 corpus weight
- seaman
seaman
77,500 corpus weight
- sensibility
sensibility
77,499 corpus weight
What this shows “salah” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salah |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /səˈlɑː/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,498 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “salah”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around salah (IPA /səˈlɑː/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,498 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Alternative form of salat.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for salah, with forms such as "aslah", "saalh", and "salahh". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SLA", "sale", "salt", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is salah, spelled S-A-L-A-H.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of salat.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aslah
- saalh
- salahh
- salha
- sallah
- slaah
- ssalah
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of salah - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "salah", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).