salami
/ˌsəˈlɑmi/noun
salami is spelled S-A-L-A-M-I: 6 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,636th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, salami means “A large cured meat sausage of Italian origin, served in slices” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of salami is salamis.
How many letters and syllables are in salami?
| Letters | 6: S-A-L-A-M-I |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 33,636th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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 salami?
Salami appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,636th 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 salami?
- UK /səˈlɑːmi/
- British /səˈlɑːmɪj/
- US /ˌsəˈlɑmi/
Salami has 3 syllables (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: En-us-salami.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with salami?
9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as salami from its last stressed vowel (/ɑmi/):
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 salami
- salamis plural
- salame
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does salami mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A large cured meat sausage of Italian origin, served in slices.
- 2
A grand slam.
- 3
slangThe penis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Salami in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense sausage:
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 salami come from?
From Italian salami, plural of salame (“salami”), from sale (“salt”), from Latin sal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).