Wals
[vaːls]
The verdict
“Wals” is uncommon German (frequency #69,879 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,879
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Wal
Corpus desk
Index DE-wals · Wals · German
Wals · rank #69,879 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,879
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Walross
Nearest frequency peer: Walross (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Wals“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Walross
Walross
30,123 corpus weight
- Wals
Wals
30,122 corpus weight
- wandernden
wandernden
30,121 corpus weight
- Warenverkehr
Warenverkehr
30,120 corpus weight
- warmherzig
warmherzig
30,119 corpus weight
- Wasserbehäl…
Wasserbehälter
30,118 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Wals“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wals |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [vaːls] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,879 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Wals“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Wals is uncommon German at frequency #69,879 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [vaːls]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Wal".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Wals in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Wals, spelled W-A-L-S.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Wal
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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