say it: SAWL-suh
salsa is a noun meaning "spicy sauce of tomatoes and onions and chili peppers to accompany Mexican foods". It is pronounced /ˈsɔlsə/ — SAWL-suh. It carries one recorded sense.
spicy sauce of tomatoes and onions and chili peppers to accompany Mexican foods
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for salsa come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.