salix
/ˈseɪlɪks/
"salix" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“salix” is uncommon English (frequency #63,970 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,970
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any member of the genus Salix; a willow.
Corpus desk
Index EN-salix · salix · English
salix · rank #63,970 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,970
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH saleable
Nearest frequency peer: saleable (-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 “salix”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Ruud
Ruud
36,037 corpus weight
- sado
sado
36,034 corpus weight
- saleable
saleable
36,032 corpus weight
- salix
salix
36,031 corpus weight
- Sanya
Sanya
36,028 corpus weight
- Scalise
Scalise
36,025 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “salix” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salix |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈseɪlɪks/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “salix” in English
Rare enough to double-check
salix is uncommon English at frequency #63,970 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈseɪlɪks/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any member of the genus Salix; a willow.".
salix doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Salix, the genus name. Doublet of sallow. The correct English form is salix, spelled S-A-L-I-X.
Definition
- 1Any member of the genus Salix; a willow.
Etymology
From Salix, the genus name. Doublet of sallow.
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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