Walloon
/wəˈluːn/noun, adjective
Walloon is a noun meaning “A native or inhabitant of Wallonia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-A-L-L-O-O-N and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 8 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Walloon is Walloons.
What does Walloon mean?
noun
- 1
A native or inhabitant of Wallonia.
- 2
A speaker of Walloon (as above).
adjective
- 1
Of, from or relating to Wallonia.
- 2
Of or relating to the Walloon language.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Walloon?
- UK /wəˈluːn/
Walloon has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: Walloon_US.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of Walloon
- Walloons plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Walloon?
Walloon appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 82,325th 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).
Walloon in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | Wallon, Wallonne , wallon, wallonne |
| German | Wallone, Wallonin , wallonisch |
| Portuguese | valão |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does Walloon come from?
Borrowed from Middle French Wallon / wallon, from Frankish *walh, from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).