Salonika
"salonika" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Salonika” is uncommon English (frequency #87,784 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,784
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Alternative spelling of Salonica, synonym of Thessaloniki: a port city, the capital of Central Macedonia, in northern Greece.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Salonika |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Salonika” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Salonika is uncommon English at frequency #87,784 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of Salonica, synonym of Thessaloniki: a port city, the capital of Central Macedonia, in northern Greece.".
Salonika doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From incomplete latinization of Byzantine Greek Σαλονίκη (Saloníkē), clipping of Ancient Greek Θεσσαλονίκη (Thessaloníkē), named for Thessalonike daughter of Philip II, half-sister of Alexander the Great, and wife of Cassander of Macedonia, from Θεσσᾰλός (T… The correct English form is Salonika, spelled S-A-L-O-N-I-K-A.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of Salonica, synonym of Thessaloniki: a port city, the capital of Central Macedonia, in northern Greece.
Etymology
From incomplete latinization of Byzantine Greek Σαλονίκη (Saloníkē), clipping of Ancient Greek Θεσσαλονίκη (Thessaloníkē), named for Thessalonike daughter of Philip II, half-sister of Alexander the Great, and wife of Cassander of Macedonia, from Θεσσᾰλός (Thessălós, “Thessalian”) + νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”), possibly named for her birth on the anniversary of the Battle of Crocus Field. Used chiefly as a calque of Ottoman Turkish سلانیك (Selânik) but with occasional reference to modern Greek Σαλονίκη (Saloníki).
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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Using “Salonika”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-A-L-O-N-I-K-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.