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saltiness

noun

saltiness is spelled S-A-L-T-I-N-E-S-S: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 71,529th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, saltiness means “The property of being, or tasting, salty” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of saltiness is saltinesses.

How many letters and syllables are in saltiness?

Letters9: S-A-L-T-I-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 6 million words; the 71,529th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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 saltiness?

Saltiness appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 71,529th 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 saltiness?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Qwertygiy-saltiness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with saltiness?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as saltiness.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: stainless.

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 saltiness

  • saltinesses plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does saltiness mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The property of being, or tasting, salty.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Saltiness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense property of being, or tasting, salty:

LanguageWords
Frenchsalure
GermanSalzigkeit
Spanishsalado, sabor a sal

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 saltiness come from?

From salty + -ness.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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