salted
adjective, verb
salted is spelled S-A-L-T-E-D: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,101st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, salted means “To which salt has been added” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in salted?
| Letters | 6: S-A-L-T-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.9 times per million words; the 20,101st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is salted?
Salted appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,101st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce salted?
Salted has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-salted.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with salted?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as salted.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: slated.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does salted mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
To which salt has been added.
salted peanuts
- 2
archaicOf an animal, vaccinated against or having recovered from a disease.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of salt
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Salted in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to which salt has been added:
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.