salad
noun
Meaning
- nounA food consisting principally of raw vegetables (especially greens, e.g. lettuce), other savoury ingredients (typically cooked), fruit, or confectionary; often involving two or more such ingredients mixed together, with larger items cut or torn into small pieces, and usually with a dressing or binding; usually served cold or at room temperature, as a dish or savoury sandwich filling.
Example:
We'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.
- nounOne or more raw vegetables of the kind used in salads; typically greens (especially lettuce).
Example:
sandwiches comprising a meat, a cheese, a salad, and a condiment
- nounAny mixture of different things.
Example:
word salad
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Very common
- #550 of 8,600 five-letter words by how often they're used
- Can be a Play Five answer
- As a first guess
- Tests likely letters better than 37% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 2 · Different letters: 4 · Repeated letters: a