walking pace
"walking-pace" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“walking pace” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The speed at which a person or animal usually walks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | walking pace |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “walking pace” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
walking pace is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The speed at which a person or animal usually walks.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for walking pace, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is walking pace, spelled W-A-L-K-I-N-G- -P-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1The speed at which a person or animal usually walks.
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “walking pace”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-A-L-K-I-N-G- -P-A-C-E - 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.