salt water
noun
salt water is a noun meaning “Any water containing a significant amount of dissolved salt or salts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-A-L-T-W-A-T-E-R. The plural of salt water is salt waters or salt-waters.
What does salt water mean?
noun
- 1
Any water containing a significant amount of dissolved salt or salts.
noun
- 1
Alternative form of salt water.
adjective
- 1
Alternative form of saltwater.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce salt water?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-salt_water.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of salt water
- salt waters plural
- saltwater
- salt-water
- salt-waters plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Words people confuse with salt water
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: saltwater (one word or two).
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Salt water in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any water containing dissolved salt:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | eau salée |
| German | Salzwasser |
| Portuguese | água salgada |
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.