salto
"salto" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“salto” is uncommon English (frequency #92,032 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,032
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A somersault.
Corpus desk
Index EN-salto · salto · English
salto · rank #92,032 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,032
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Salmons
Nearest frequency peer: Salmons (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “salto”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Salcedo
Salcedo
7,974 corpus weight
- salicylate
salicylate
7,973 corpus weight
- Salmons
Salmons
7,970 corpus weight
- salto
salto
7,969 corpus weight
- samphire
samphire
7,968 corpus weight
- sandpit
sandpit
7,965 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “salto” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salto |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,032 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “salto” in English
Rare enough to double-check
salto is uncommon English at frequency #92,032 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A somersault.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for salto, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Italian salto (“jump, leap”), from Latin saltus (“jump, leap”). Compare German Salto, French salto, Dutch salto, Hungarian szaltó. Doublet of saltus. The correct English form is salto, spelled S-A-L-T-O.
Definition
- 1A somersault.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how salto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I originally thought I'd impress Bela with my fullout dismount (two saltos in a tucked position with a 360-degree twist on the second salto), but I hadn't perfected it on a hard landing surface yet.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian salto (“jump, leap”), from Latin saltus (“jump, leap”). Compare German Salto, French salto, Dutch salto, Hungarian szaltó. Doublet of saltus.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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