Salamis
"salamis" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Salamis” is uncommon English (frequency #67,009 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,009
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The largest island in the Saronic Gulf, near Athens, Greece, where a famous battle in the Persian Wars took place.
Corpus desk
Index EN-salamis · Salamis · English
Salamis · rank #67,009 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,009
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Samarkand
Nearest frequency peer: Samarkand (+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 “Salamis”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Ruthven
Ruthven
32,995 corpus weight
- saco
saco
32,994 corpus weight
- Salamis
Salamis
32,992 corpus weight
- Samarkand
Samarkand
32,991 corpus weight
- Sammie
Sammie
32,990 corpus weight
- Santoro
Santoro
32,988 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Salamis” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Salamis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,009 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Salamis” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Salamis is uncommon English at frequency #67,009 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Salamis has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ancient Greek Σαλαμίς (Salamís). The correct English form is Salamis, spelled S-A-L-A-M-I-S.
Definition
- 1The largest island in the Saronic Gulf, near Athens, Greece, where a famous battle in the Persian Wars took place.
- 2An ancient Greek city in Cyprus.
- 3A nymph, the daughter of Asopus and Metope, who was carried away by Poseidon to the island that bears her name.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Σαλαμίς (Salamís).
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); 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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