salus
The verdict
“salus” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #80,480 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #80,480
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Seguridad personal, inmunidad contra dolores o violencia, bienestar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salus |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsa.luːs/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “salus” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for salus is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsa.luːs/. Corpus data places it at rank #80,480 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for salus in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 salus, spelled S-A-L-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Seguridad personal, inmunidad contra dolores o violencia, bienestar.
- 2Seguridad personal, inmunidad contra dolores o violencia, bienestar.
- 3Bienestar físico (en contraste con la enfermedad), salud.
- 4Vida (cuando peligra).
- 5Vida (cuando peligra).
- 6Seguridad con respecto a los derechos civiles, libertad, etc.
- 7Seguridad (de un estado, del pueblo, etc.).
- 8Medio de liberación, salvación.
- 9Medio de liberación, salvación.
- 10Medio de liberación, salvación.
- 11Saludo.
- 12Saludo.
Frequency rank: #80,480 in Spanish
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Using “salus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-A-L-U-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈsa.luːs/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby Spanish words
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