saltine
/sɔlˈtin/noun
saltine is spelled S-A-L-T-I-N-E: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, saltine means “A thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker; a soda cracker; a soda biscuit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of saltine is saltines.
How many letters and syllables are in saltine?
| Letters | 7: S-A-L-T-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 13 million words; the 106,501st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 saltine?
Saltine appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st 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 saltine?
- US /sɔlˈtin/
- US /sɑlˈtin/
Saltine has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-saltine.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with saltine?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as saltine from its last stressed vowel (/in/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: salient, elastin, staniel.
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).
Forms of saltine
- saltines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does saltine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
CanadaUSA thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker; a soda cracker; a soda biscuit.
- 2
CanadaUSA euphemism for cracker ("white person").
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Saltine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense salty cracker:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | craquelin, biscuit soda |
| German | Cracker |
| Spanish | galleta de soda, galleta de agua, saltina |
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.
Where does saltine come from?
Genericized trademark. Originally a US brand name in the late 1800s, presumably salt + -ine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).