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Cover [Abstract]        
Entity Central Index Key 0001646614      
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Securities Act File Number 000-56533      
Document Type 10-Q      
Entity Registrant Name SILVER POINT SPECIALTY LENDING FUND      
Entity Address, Address Line One Two Greenwich Plaza      
Entity Address, Address Line Two Suite 1      
Entity Address, City or Town Greenwich      
Entity Address, State or Province CT      
Entity Address, Postal Zip Code 06830      
City Area Code 203      
Local Phone Number 542-4200      
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General Description of Registrant [Abstract]        
Investment Objectives and Practices [Text Block] Our investment objective is to achieve stable income generation with attractive risk-adjusted returns by investing primarily in U.S. middle market lending opportunities, and specialty asset based financings. We define “middle market companies” to generally mean companies with earnings before interest expense, income tax expense, depreciation and amortization (“EBITDA”) between $30 million and $150 million annually and/or enterprise value between $150 million and $2 billion at the time of investment. As of June 30, 2025, the portfolio median EBITDA for our portfolio companies was approximately $88.2 million. We may also, from time to time, invest in larger or smaller companies. In seeking to achieve our investment objective, we may also invest across a broad range of industries. We will invest primarily in first-lien debt, but may also invest in second-lien debt, mezzanine and unsecured debt, equity, structured credit, and derivatives depending on the opportunity set and market environment.

We focus on U.S. middle market opportunities that have barriers to entry because they entail in-depth due diligence, valuation and collateral analyses; involve complexity; and require speed and certainty of execution and similar features that limit the

participation of traditional financing sources. These opportunities are often less competitive and allow us to require more favorable structural and economic terms than available in broader public markets. In addition to investments in U.S. middle market companies, we may invest a portion of our capital in opportunistic investments, including, but not limited to, loans, debt securities (secured and unsecured) and equity. The proportion of these types of investments will change over time given our views on, among other things, the economic and credit environment in which we are operating.

Our Adviser believes the middle market lending environment is attractive throughout the credit cycle as a result of the following (i) growing demand for non-traditional lenders, (ii) trajectory of the middle market environment, (iii) dynamics of middle market lending conditions and (iv) the niches of the specialty lending market, on which we believe our Adviser has the credit expertise and sourcing relationships to capitalize. The reduced competition and barriers to entry within these deals may allow us to originate and purchase loans at premium economics and with better creditor protections than those available in the broader market.

     
Risk Factors [Table Text Block]

Item 1A. Risk Factors

In addition to the other information set forth in this report, you should carefully consider the risk factors discussed below and contained in "Item 1A. Risk Factors" in our most recent annual report on Form 10-K, filed with the SEC on March 14, 2025 (our "Form 10-K"), each of which could materially affect our business, financial condition or future results. The risks described in our Form 10-K are not the only risks facing the Fund. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently deem to be immaterial also may materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and/or operating results..

Tariffs may adversely affect us or our portfolio companies.

The current United States administration has threatened or imposed tariffs on certain imports from a number of countries, including China. Tariffs and international trade arrangements may continue to change, potentially without warning and to an extent that is difficult to predict. Existing or new tariffs imposed on foreign goods imported by the United States or on U.S. goods imported by foreign countries could subject us or our portfolio companies to additional risks. Among other effects, tariffs may increase the cost of production for certain or our portfolio companies or reduce demand for their products, which could affect the results of their operations. We cannot predict whether, or to what extent, any tariff or other trade protections may affect us or our portfolio companies.

Economic recessions or downturns could impair our portfolio companies and harm our operating results.

Many of our portfolio companies may be susceptible to economic slowdowns or recessions and may be unable to repay our loans during these periods. Therefore, our non-performing assets may increase and the value of our portfolio may decrease during these periods as we are required to record the values of our investments. Adverse economic conditions also may decrease the value of collateral securing our loans. Economic slowdowns or recessions could lead to financial losses in our portfolio and a decrease in revenues, net income and assets. Unfavorable economic conditions also could increase our funding costs, limit our access to the capital markets or result in a decision by lenders not to extend credit to us. These events could prevent us from increasing investments and harm our operating results.

A portfolio company’s failure to satisfy financial or operating covenants imposed by us or other lenders could lead to defaults and, potentially, termination of its loans and foreclosure on its secured assets, which could trigger cross-defaults under other agreements and jeopardize our portfolio company’s ability to meet its obligations under the debt securities that we hold. We may incur expenses to the extent necessary to seek recovery upon default or to negotiate new terms with a defaulting portfolio company. In addition, if one of our portfolio companies were to go bankrupt, even though we or one of our affiliates may have structured our interest in such portfolio company as senior debt, depending on the facts and circumstances, including the extent to which we actually provided managerial assistance to that portfolio company, a bankruptcy court might re-characterize our debt holding as equity and subordinate all or a portion of our claim to claims of other creditors.

Efforts by the Federal Reserve and other central banks globally to combat inflation and restore price stability, as well as other global events, may raise the prospect or severity of a recession. Wars have added, and other international tensions or escalations of conflict may add, instability to the uncertainty driving socioeconomic forces, which may continue to have an impact on global trade and result in inflation or economic instability. Present conditions and the state of the U.S. and global economies make it difficult to predict whether and/or to what extent a recession will occur in the near future.

      
NAV Per Share [1],[2] $ 14.41 $ 14.76 $ 14.71 $ 14.64
[1] The per share data was derived by using the weighted average shares outstanding during the applicable period, except for net asset value and dividends declared which reflected the actual amount per share for the applicable period.
[2] Totals may not foot due to rounding.