salo
"salo" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“salo” is uncommon English (frequency #64,680 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,680
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - a type of fatback, or non-rendered underskin pig fat consumed in Central and Eastern Europe, usually seasoned
Corpus desk
Index EN-salo · salo · English
salo · rank #64,680 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,680
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Salih
Nearest frequency peer: Salih (-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 “salo”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Salih
Salih
35,322 corpus weight
- salo
salo
35,321 corpus weight
- samsara
samsara
35,320 corpus weight
- Sanju
Sanju
35,318 corpus weight
- sartorius
sartorius
35,316 corpus weight
- satsuma
satsuma
35,315 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “salo” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #64,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “salo” in English
Rare enough to double-check
salo is uncommon English at frequency #64,680 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "a type of fatback, or non-rendered underskin pig fat consumed in Central and Eastern Europe, usually seasoned".
Zero misspellings are on record for salo in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Russian са́ло (sálo) or Ukrainian са́ло (sálo), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *sadlo. The correct English form is salo, spelled S-A-L-O.
Definition
- 1a type of fatback, or non-rendered underskin pig fat consumed in Central and Eastern Europe, usually seasoned
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how salo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] Mr. Castro waxed nostalgic, recounting the time he and Soviet comrades sat around a campfire in the forest eating salo, the cured pig fat that is a staple chaser of Russian vodka.
Etymology
From Russian са́ло (sálo) or Ukrainian са́ло (sálo), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *sadlo.
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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