Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

salt lake

/ˈsɔːlt ˌleɪk/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.40 in modern English

Syllables: salt lake
IPA: /ˈsɔːlt ˌleɪk/

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A landlocked body of water with a high concentration of salts and other dissolved minerals.

name

Salt Lake City (a city in Utah, United States).

name

Salt Lake City, Utah.

name

Salt Lake, an alkaline lake on the Minnesota-South Dakota Border.

name

A suburb of Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Example Sentences

"If Expressjet found takers, the flight would get its passengers here in plenty of time for the Sunday evening screening of “Crude,” about the struggle between Ecuador’s indigenous people and the Chevron Corporation over toxic oil waste left behind by the makers of petroproducts like those that fly the planes, not to mention those fueling the limousines and rental cars that make the nearly 40-mile run to Park City from the Salt Lake airport."

Etymology

From salt + lake.

Inflected Forms

salt lakes (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce salt lake?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsɔːlt ˌleɪk/.
What does salt lake mean?: A landlocked body of water with a high concentration of salts and other dissolved minerals.
Where does salt lake come from?: From salt + lake.

How to pronounce salt lake

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