Walser
"walser" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Walser” is uncommon English (frequency #91,135 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,135
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A member of a German-speaking community in Alpine Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein and Austria.
Corpus desk
Index EN-walser · Walser · English
Walser · rank #91,135 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,135
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Wallonia
Nearest frequency peer: Wallonia (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “Walser”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- voluble
voluble
8,871 corpus weight
- Wallonia
Wallonia
8,867 corpus weight
- Walser
Walser
8,866 corpus weight
- Warby
Warby
8,865 corpus weight
- Weale
Weale
8,860 corpus weight
- webstore
webstore
8,858 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Walser” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Walser |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Walser” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Walser is uncommon English at frequency #91,135 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A member of a German-speaking community in Alpine Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein and Austria.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Walser in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From German Walser, by contraction from Walliser, from Wallis + -er. The correct English form is Walser, spelled W-A-L-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1A member of a German-speaking community in Alpine Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein and Austria.
Etymology
From German Walser, by contraction from Walliser, from Wallis + -er.
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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