walls
[wɔːlz]
The verdict
“walls” is uncommon German (frequency #55,023 among 38,697 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,023
- frequency rank, German
- 38,697
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs wall
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | walls |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [wɔːlz] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,023 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “walls” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
walls is uncommon German at frequency #55,023 among 38,697 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [wɔːlz]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs wall".
No generated misspelling entries exist for walls in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is walls, spelled W-A-L-L-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs wall
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “walls”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is W-A-L-L-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.