salvia
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#39,451
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
salvia is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Salvia) Mata labiada de la familia de las lamiáceas, que crece hasta unos sesenta centímetros de altura, con tallos duros, vellosos, esquinados, de color verde blanquecino; hojas estrechas, aovada... Pronounced [ˈsalβ̞ja]. Often confused with salvo and selva.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salvia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsalβ̞ja] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #39,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for salvia is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsalβ̞ja]. Corpus data places it at rank #39,451 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 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for salvia, with forms such as "aslvia", "salbia", and "sallvia". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "salvo", "selva", "Silva", 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 salvia, spelled S-A-L-V-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Salvia) Mata labiada de la familia de las lamiáceas, que crece hasta unos sesenta centímetros de altura, con tallos duros, vellosos, esquinados, de color verde blanquecino; hojas estrechas, aovadas, romas y blanquinosas, de borde arrugado y en ondas, olor fuerte aromático y sabor algo amargo; flores azuladas en espiga, y fruto seco con una sola semilla. Es común en los terrenos áridos e incultos de España, y se usa el cocimiento de las hojas como tónico y estomacal. Hay otras varias especies, todas parecidas.
- 2Planta de la familia de las verbenáceas; es olorosa y sus hojas se usan para hacer una infusión estomacal contra las hemorroides. Se encuentra en la Patagonia.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aslvia,salbia,sallvia,salvai,salvvia,savlia,slavia,ssalvia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for salvia
Misspelling Variants of "salvia"
Frequency rank: #39,451 in Spanish
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