salsa

1. 1.

   spicy sauce of tomatoes and onions and chili peppers to accompany Mexican foods

   Broadercondiment

Other forms of salsa

plural

salsas·

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.

Questions about salsa

What does salsa mean?

salsa means "spicy sauce of tomatoes and onions and chili peppers to accompany Mexican foods".

How many syllables are in salsa?

salsa has 2 syllables: sal-sa. The stress falls on "sal". In IPA it is /ˈsɔlsə/.

Is salsa a common word?

salsa is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.