salame
[saˈlame]
The verdict
“salame” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #27,003. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,003
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Embutido de carne de cerdo o de res, que una vez curado y secado se come crudo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-salame · salame · Spanish
salame · rank #27,003 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,003
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sama
Nearest frequency peer: sama (+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 “salame”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- rítmica
rítmica
73,001 corpus weight
- rústico
rústico
73,000 corpus weight
- salame
salame
72,998 corpus weight
- sama
sama
72,997 corpus weight
- Sar
Sar
72,996 corpus weight
- season
season
72,995 corpus weight
What this shows “salame” 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 | salame |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [saˈlame] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,003 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “salame”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around salame (IPA [saˈlame]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,003 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for salame, with forms such as "aslame", "saalme", and "salaem". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sale", "same", "slam", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is salame, spelled S-A-L-A-M-E.
Definition
- 1Embutido de carne de cerdo o de res, que una vez curado y secado se come crudo.
- 2Persona que percibe o piensa con dificultad y pobremente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how salame appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tome Vuestra Señoría muestra general de artilleros y gente de guerra, y forme compañías con sus capitanes, ayudantes, alféreces, sargentos y demás oficiales; nombre gente para pertrechar la batería del enemigo, faginar y terraplenar; mande recoger todas las municiones y víveres, comestibles y salame de todo género, aceite, vino, sal, legumbres y queso; ha…
El comisario dijo que sí, se sentó, tomó su jarro de mate cocido y su galleta, y hasta un pedazo de salame que le alcanzaron en la punta de un cuchillo, junto con alguna jarana livianita sobre los puebleros que madrugan, que el comisario empardó para que supieran que venía en paz a comer como un cristiano, y a estar un rato con ellos, aunque eso era más d…
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aslame
- saalme
- salaem
- salamme
- sallame
- salmae
- slaame
- ssalame
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of salame - 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.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "salame", 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).