how to pronounce salsa

/ˈsɑːlsə/

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salsa is pronounced in two syllables

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ɑː

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An example use of salsa in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… said uh hot salsa in her bag right when …”

meaning of salsa

Salsa is a type of Latin American music.

salsa frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word salsa occurs in english on average 10.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics salsa can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that salsa can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;