Walloon
/wəˈluːn/
"walloon" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Walloon” is uncommon English (frequency #82,908 among 12,113 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,908
- frequency rank, English
- 12,113
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A Romance language traditionally spoken in parts of southern Belgium and a small strip of northern France (around Givet).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Walloon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /wəˈluːn/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Walloon” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Walloon is uncommon English at frequency #82,908 among 12,113 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /wəˈluːn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Romance language traditionally spoken in parts of southern Belgium and a small strip of northern France (around Givet).".
Walloon doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Middle French Wallon / wallon, from Frankish *walh, from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner”). Cognate to English Welsh/Wales, the second part of Cornwall, and first part of walnut, as well as Gaul and Wallachia. The correct English form is Walloon, spelled W-A-L-L-O-O-N.
Definition
- 1A Romance language traditionally spoken in parts of southern Belgium and a small strip of northern France (around Givet).
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French Wallon / wallon, from Frankish *walh, from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner”). Cognate to English Welsh/Wales, the second part of Cornwall, and first part of walnut, as well as Gaul and Wallachia.
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); 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 “Walloon”
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- The one correct English spelling is W-A-L-L-O-O-N - 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.