sala
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sala |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsala] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Pieza principal de la casa, donde se reciben las visitas de cumplimiento.
- 2Aposento de grandes dimensiones.
- 3Pieza donde se constituye un tribunal de justicia para celebrar audiencia y despachar los asuntos a él sometidos.
- 4Conjunto de los jueces que forman un tribunal de alzada.
- 5Convite, fiesta, sarao y diversión.
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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"
Frequency rank: #1,067 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter S in our Spanish index: