# saltillo

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #96,445

## Definitions
1. In Mexican languages, especially Nahuatl, a glottal stop or fricative sound.
2. In mostly Hispanophone countries, especially Mexico, an apostrophe-like letter (lowercase ꞌ and in some orthographies capital Ꞌ) used to represent a glottal stop.

## Etymology
From Spanish saltillo.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/saltillo