salía
[saˈlia]
The verdict
“salía” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #6,009. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,009
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de salir o de salirse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-salia · salía · Spanish
salía · rank #6,009 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,009
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH saldrá
Nearest frequency peer: saldrá (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “salía”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- sabio
sabio
93,994 corpus weight
- saldrá
saldrá
93,993 corpus weight
- salía
salía
93,992 corpus weight
- sobrino
sobrino
93,991 corpus weight
- sorprendido
sorprendido
93,990 corpus weight
- sucio
sucio
93,989 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “salía” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | salía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [saˈlia] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,009 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “salía” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around salía (IPA [saˈlia]), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,009 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for salía, with forms such as "aslía", "salaí", and "sallía". 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, "sia", "Sola", "sara", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is salía, spelled S-A-L-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de salir o de salirse.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de salir o de salirse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aslía
- salaí
- sallía
- saíla
- slaía
- ssalía
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of salía - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "salía", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.