salsa
Portuguese, noun/ˈsaw.sɐ/
salsa is spelled S-A-L-S-A (5 letters) and appears 3.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 15,278th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Salsa is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “parsley (Petroselinum crispum, a herb)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “água do mar, água salobre”.
What does salsa mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineparsley (Petroselinum crispum, a herb)
noun
- 1
femininesalsa (a music and dance genre influenced by Cuban music, jazz and rock)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. água do mar, água salobre 2. molho, substância líquida das comidas, condimento líquido, prebe, tempero, adubo 3. planta das espécies Petroselinum sativa ou Petroselinum crispum; cebolinha 4. planta da espécie Ipomoea imperati, (também nomeada como Convolvulus littoraralis Linn), caule ramoso, de cor clara, folhas pecioladas, cápsula com quatro sementes escuras
noun: 1. gênero musical e dança caribenhas, de origem africana
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of salsa
- salsas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce salsa?
- Brazil /ˈsaw.sɐ/
- Brazil [ˈsaʊ̯.sɐ]
- Portugal /ˈsal.sɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to salsa
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is salsa in Portuguese?
salsa appears 3.6 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).