# wallet

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈwɒl.ɪt/ · frequency rank #5,648

## Definitions
1. A small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc.
2. A person's bank account or assets.
3. An e-wallet or digital wallet.
4. A thick case or folder with plastic sleeves in which compact discs may be stored.
5. A bag or pouch.
6. A person's buttocks (the area of the body nearest where one keeps one's wallet).

## Etymology
From Middle English walet (“a bag, knapsack”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from an assumed Old Northern French *walet (“a roll; bag; a knapsack”), from Proto-Germanic *wal- (“to roll”). More at walk, well, wallow.

## Easily confused with
- **Walt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wallet-vs-walt)
- **walls** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wallet-vs-walls)
- **Wally** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wallet-vs-wally)
- **Walter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wallet-vs-walter)
- **walnut** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wallet-vs-walnut)
- **Wallis** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wallet-vs-wallis)
- **willed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wallet-vs-willed)
- **Welles** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wallet-vs-welles)
- **weller** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wallet-vs-weller)
- **wallow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wallet-vs-wallow)
- **wallop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wallet-vs-wallop)
- **Willey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wallet-vs-willey)
- **Willett** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wallet-vs-willett)
- **walleye** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wallet-vs-walleye)
- **wall** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wall-vs-wallet)
- **wale** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wale-vs-wallet)
- **Wales** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wales-vs-wallet)
- **walked** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/walked-vs-wallet)
- **walker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/walker-vs-wallet)
- **walled** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/walled-vs-wallet)

## Common misspellings (7)
`awllet`, `walelt`, `walet`, `wallett`, `wallte`, `wlalet`, `wwallet`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/wallet