salubrious
/səˈl(j)uː.bɹi.əs/
"salubrious" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“salubrious” is uncommon English (frequency #81,793 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,793
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Promoting health or well-being; wholesome, especially relating to food or air.
Corpus desk
Index EN-salubrious · salubrious · English
salubrious · rank #81,793 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,793
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sakharov
Nearest frequency peer: Sakharov (-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 “salubrious”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Sabe
Sabe
18,212 corpus weight
- sables
sables
18,211 corpus weight
- saddling
saddling
18,210 corpus weight
- Sakharov
Sakharov
18,209 corpus weight
- salubrious
salubrious
18,208 corpus weight
- samosa
samosa
18,207 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “salubrious” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salubrious |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /səˈl(j)uː.bɹi.əs/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “salubrious” in English
Rare enough to double-check
salubrious is uncommon English at frequency #81,793 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /səˈl(j)uː.bɹi.əs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Promoting health or well-being; wholesome, especially relating to food or air.".
salubrious has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin salūbris (“healthy”) + -ous. The correct English form is salubrious, spelled S-A-L-U-B-R-I-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Promoting health or well-being; wholesome, especially relating to food or air.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how salubrious appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ireland has a mild, genial and salubrious climate, I remember from my geography lessons. Salubrious, my foot! Unless you take salubrious to mean a regular downpour the whole year round, with, in between, a penetrating dampness[…]
Etymology
From Latin salūbris (“healthy”) + -ous.
This word in other languages
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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