salado
[saˈlað̞o]
The verdict
“salado” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #13,345. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,345
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que tiene el sabor característico de la sal.
Corpus desk
Index ES-salado · salado · Spanish
salado · rank #13,345 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,345
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH rotas
Nearest frequency peer: rotas (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “salado”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- rex
rex
86,658 corpus weight
- rotas
rotas
86,657 corpus weight
- salado
salado
86,656 corpus weight
- saldría
saldría
86,655 corpus weight
- saludables
saludables
86,654 corpus weight
- science
science
86,653 corpus weight
What this shows “salado” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [saˈlað̞o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “salado”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around salado (IPA [saˈlað̞o]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,345 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for salado, with forms such as "aslado", "saaldo", and "saladdo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "salud", "salvo", "Salto", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is salado, spelled S-A-L-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1Que tiene el sabor característico de la sal.
- 2Uno de los sabores esenciales en que se clasifican nuestras experiencias gustativas, correspondiente con salado₁.
- 3Que tiene más sal de la necesaria.
- 4Dicho de una persona, que es simpático o gracioso.
- 5Dicho de una persona, que tiene mala suerte.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aslado
- saaldo
- saladdo
- salaod
- saldao
- sallado
- slaado
- ssalado
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of salado - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "salado", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).