sal
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,318
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sal is aSpanishnoun. It means: Condimento compuesto principalmente por cloruro de sodio. Se usa en todo el mundo desde tiempos remotos y confiere a los alimentos un sabor característico (salado). Pronounced [ˈsal]. It ranks #2,318 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with se and su.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsal] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sal is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsal]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,318 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sal in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "se", "su", "sí", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is sal, spelled S-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Condimento compuesto principalmente por cloruro de sodio. Se usa en todo el mundo desde tiempos remotos y confiere a los alimentos un sabor característico (salado).
- 2Compuesto formado por cationes (iones cargados positivamente) enlazados a aniones (iones cargados negativamente), producto típico de una reacción química entre una base y un ácido.
- 3Gracia y desenvoltura en la forma de actuar.
- 4Mala suerte.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #2,318 in Spanish
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