walleye
"walleye" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“walleye” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #49,714. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,714
- frequency rank, English
- 12,113
- “W” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - One or a pair of sideways-looking misaligned eyes.
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 | walleye |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “walleye” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around walleye, anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,714 among 12,113 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for walleye, with forms such as "awlleye", "walelye", and "waleye". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Wally", "Willey", "wallet", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Back-formation from walleyed. The correct English form is walleye, spelled W-A-L-L-E-Y-E.
Definition
- 1One or a pair of sideways-looking misaligned eyes.
- 2An unusually pale eye.
- 3A gamefish of species Sander vitreus, native to the Northern U.S. and Canada with pale, reflective eyes.
Etymology
Back-formation from walleyed.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: awlleye,walelye,waleye,walleey,walleyye,wallyee,wlaleye,wwalleye
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of walleye - 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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Using “walleye”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-A-L-L-E-Y-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “Wally” - see the side-by-side comparison. walleye vs Wally
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Same frequency band
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.