salitre
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#32,868
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
salitre is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mineral rico en nitrato potásico (KNO₃) y nitrato sódico (Na NO₂), principalmente, que se extrae de las pampas salitreras del norte de Chile. Hoy tiene uso como fertilizante, y antaño se usaba para... Pronounced [saˈlit̪ɾe]. Often confused with salté and Sastre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salitre |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [saˈlit̪ɾe] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,868 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for salitre is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [saˈlit̪ɾe]. Corpus data places it at rank #32,868 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for salitre, with forms such as "aslitre", "sailtre", and "salirte". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "salté", "Sastre", "salir", 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 salitre, spelled S-A-L-I-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mineral rico en nitrato potásico (KNO₃) y nitrato sódico (Na NO₂), principalmente, que se extrae de las pampas salitreras del norte de Chile. Hoy tiene uso como fertilizante, y antaño se usaba para preparar pólvora.
- 2Capa salina que corroe las paredes y suelos en ambientes marinos, principalmente.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aslitre,sailtre,salirte,saliter,salitrre,salittre,sallitre,saltire,slaitre,ssalitre
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Misspelling Variants of "salitre"
Frequency rank: #32,868 in Spanish
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