sala

/[ˈsala]/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,067

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

sala is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pieza principal de la casa, donde se reciben las visitas de cumplimiento. Pronounced [ˈsala]. It ranks #1,067 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with SL and sea.

Key facts for sala
PropertyValue
Headwordsala
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈsala]
Letters4
Frequency rank#1,067
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sala in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for sala is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsala]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,067 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for sala, with forms such as "asla", "saal", and "salla". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SL", "sea", "sol", 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 sala, spelled S-A-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pieza principal de la casa, donde se reciben las visitas de cumplimiento.
  2. 2
    Aposento de grandes dimensiones.
  3. 3
    Pieza donde se constituye un tribunal de justicia para celebrar audiencia y despachar los asuntos a él sometidos.
  4. 4
    Conjunto de los jueces que forman un tribunal de alzada.
  5. 5
    Convite, fiesta, sarao y diversión.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: asla,saal,salla,slaa,ssala

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sala

Misspelling Variants of "sala"

asla4saal4salla5slaa4ssala5
Misspelling Variants of "sala"

Frequency rank: #1,067 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sala"?
"sala" is spelled S-A-L-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈsala].
What does "sala" mean?
As a noun, "sala" means: Pieza principal de la casa, donde se reciben las visitas de cumplimiento.
What words are commonly confused with "sala"?
"sala" is commonly confused with "SL", "sea", "sol". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sala"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sala" is [ˈsala]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sala" come from?
"sala" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter S in our Spanish index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.