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wallahi

/wəlˈlɑːhiː/interjection

wallahi is spelled W-A-L-L-A-H-I: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an interjection, wallahi means “Alternative form of wallah” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in wallahi?

Letters7: W-A-L-L-A-H-I
In writingabout once in every 74 million words; the 272,462nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is wallahi?

Wallahi appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce wallahi?

  • /wəlˈlɑːhiː/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of wallahi

  • wlhi

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does wallahi mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

interjection

  1. 1

    Alternative form of wallah.

  2. 2

    slangI swear to God; used to add emphasis.

    wallahi I got it from her

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate wallahi?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of wallahi: wlhi.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does wallahi come from?

From Arabic وَٱللّٰه (wa-llāh, literally “by God”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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