walk away
"walk-away" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“walk away” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To withdraw from a problematic situation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-walk-away · walk away · English
walk away · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | walk away |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “walk away” in English
Rare enough to double-check
walk away is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for walk away, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is walk away, spelled W-A-L-K- -A-W-A-Y.
Definition
- 1To withdraw from a problematic situation.
- 2Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
- 3To free oneself from a debt such as a mortgage by abandoning the collateral to the lender. To make a strategic default.
- 4To survive a challenging or dangerous situation without harm.
- 5Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see walk, away.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how walk away appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Company lawyers told him to walk away from the deal.
Green adds: "Luckily, nobody did walk away. Railtrack stayed with it, so did the government, so did the Strategic Rail Authority.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.