sal
/sæl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.48 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Shorea robusta, a dipterocarpaceous tree.
name
A diminutive of the male given names Salomon, Salvador, and Salvatore.
name
A diminutive of the female given name Sally.
name
One of the ten islands of Cape Verde.
noun
Example Sentences
- "As the sals were cut in the lower foothill districts the loggers looked towards the mountains in their search for other hardwood timber."
- "Wegener bases his theory of the drifting continents on the assumption that there are two distinct levels to be taken into account, the surface of the masses of "sal" which form the continents and the surface of the "sima" in which they float."
- "Indeed what do the tensomethings, who might be watching the show at that hour, make of jokes like Joey telling Chandler that his uncle Sal has a really big tongue."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: sal, साल, शाल
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
sal absinthii
sal acetosellae
sal alembroth
sal ammoniac
sal catharticus
sal culinarius
sal cyrenaicus
sal de duobus