walkman
"walkman" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“walkman” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #46,258. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,258
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A portable personal audio cassette player with headphones.
Corpus desk
Index EN-walkman · walkman · English
walkman · rank #46,258 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,258
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH vinaigrette
Nearest frequency peer: vinaigrette (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “walkman”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Velma
Velma
53,748 corpus weight
- Vikas
Vikas
53,745 corpus weight
- vinaigrette
vinaigrette
53,744 corpus weight
- walkman
walkman
53,743 corpus weight
- wallop
wallop
53,742 corpus weight
- Wea
Wea
53,739 corpus weight
What this shows “walkman” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | walkman |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #46,258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “walkman”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around walkman, anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,258 among 1,759 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for walkman, with forms such as "awlkman", "waklman", and "walkamn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Waxman", "walkway", "workman", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: (cassette player): Genericized trademark from the Sony trademark Walkman. The correct English form is walkman, spelled W-A-L-K-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1A portable personal audio cassette player with headphones.
- 2Pigs' ears, chopped, shaved, marinated, skewered, then grilled, sold as street food.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how walkman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Because I can't stand looking at that inexplicable Walkman anymore. You're carrying around a brick playing a cassette tape. We're not savages—so I'm gonna put a thousand songs in your pocket.
Etymology
(cassette player): Genericized trademark from the Sony trademark Walkman.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- awlkman
- waklman
- walkamn
- walkkman
- walkmann
- walkmman
- walkmna
- wallkman
- walmkan
- wlakman
- wwalkman
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of walkman - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "walkman", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).