table salt
"table-salt" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“table salt” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sodium chloride or a mineral product chiefly composed of it: the salt most commonly used to season food at table.
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Index EN-table-salt · table salt · English
table salt · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | table salt |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “table salt” in English
Rare enough to double-check
table salt is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sodium chloride or a mineral product chiefly composed of it: the salt most commonly used to season food at table.".
Zero misspellings are on record for table salt in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is table salt, spelled T-A-B-L-E- -S-A-L-T.
Definition
- 1Sodium chloride or a mineral product chiefly composed of it: the salt most commonly used to season food at table.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how table salt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonyms: common salt, salt (broad sense), NaCl, kosher salt
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.