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salutations

/ˌsæljʊˈteɪʃənz/interjection, noun

salutations is spelled S-A-L-U-T-A-T-I-O-N-S: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 53,573rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an interjection, salutations means “A greeting; hello” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in salutations?

Letters11: S-A-L-U-T-A-T-I-O-N-S
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 53,573rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is salutations?

Salutations appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 53,573rd 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 salutations?

  • /ˌsæljʊˈteɪʃənz/

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

What does salutations mean?

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

interjection

  1. 1

    A greeting; hello.

noun

  1. 1

    plural of salutation (a form of salutation)

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

Where does salutations come from?

The interjection is an application of the noun.

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

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