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salado

Spanish, adjective/saˈlado/

salado is spelled S-A-L-A-D-O (6 letters) and appears 4.4 times per million words in written Spanish, the 13,207th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Salado is a Spanish adjective meaning “salty” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of salar. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Que tiene el sabor característico de la sal”.

What does salado mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    salty

  2. 2

    salted

  3. 3

    brackish

  4. 4

    nice, pleasant, likable (of a person)

  5. 5

    Latin-Americacolloquialunlucky (of a person)

adjective

  1. 1

    colloquialexpensive

  2. 2

    colloquialawesome

  3. 3

    colloquialdifficult, hard

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of salar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Que tiene el sabor característico de la sal. 2. Uno de los sabores esenciales en que se clasifican nuestras experiencias gustativas, correspondiente con salado₁. 3. Que tiene más sal de la necesaria. 4. Dicho de una persona, que es simpático o gracioso.

verb: 1. Participio de salar.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of salado

  • salada feminine
  • salados masculine plural
  • saladas feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce salado?

  • /saˈlado/
  • [saˈla.ð̞o]
  • [saˈlað̞o]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to salado

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is salado in Spanish?

salado appears 4.4 times per million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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