salsa
\sal.sa\
The verdict
“salsa” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,696. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,696
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Terme recouvrant différents genres musicaux et la danse sur cette musique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salsa · salsa · French
salsa · rank #22,696 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,696
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saisonnières
Nearest frequency peer: saisonnières (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « salsa »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- réticence
réticence
77,308 corpus weight
- sacoche
sacoche
77,307 corpus weight
- saisonnières
saisonnières
77,306 corpus weight
- salsa
salsa
77,305 corpus weight
- salt
salt
77,304 corpus weight
- sauna
sauna
77,303 corpus weight
What this shows « salsa » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | salsa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sal.sa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « salsa »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around salsa (IPA \sal.sa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,696 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for salsa, with forms such as "aslsa", "salas", and "sallsa". 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, "sans", "sols", "sara", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is salsa, spelled S-A-L-S-A.
Definition
- 1Terme recouvrant différents genres musicaux et la danse sur cette musique.
- 2Sauce mexicaine à base de poivrons, piment, oignons, tomates, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how salsa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
35 professeurs spécialisés en salsa, bachata, dancehall ou hip-hop venant du monde entier dispensent en journée des cours aux adultes, aux enfants et pour la première fois cette année, aux seniors
Essayez, vous, de danser la salsa avec un verre dans chaque main après avoir passé la journée sous un soleil de plomb, vous verrez, ce n’est pas facile !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aslsa
- salas
- sallsa
- salssa
- sasla
- slasa
- ssalsa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of salsa - 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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).