Walshe
"walshe" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Walshe” is uncommon English (frequency #93,315 among 12,113 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,315
- frequency rank, English
- 12,113
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An Irish surname transferred from the nickname of Anglo-Norman origin, meaning Briton or foreigner. Also a translation of Breathnach, with the same meaning.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Walshe |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Walshe” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Walshe is uncommon English at frequency #93,315 among 12,113 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An Irish surname transferred from the nickname of Anglo-Norman origin, meaning Briton or foreigner. Also a translation of Breathnach, with the same meaning.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Walshe, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English Walsch, from Old English wælisc, variant of wīelisċ, from Proto-West Germanic *walhisk, from Proto-Germanic *walhiskaz; equivalent to wale (“outsider”) + -isch. The correct English form is Walshe, spelled W-A-L-S-H-E.
Definition
- 1An Irish surname transferred from the nickname of Anglo-Norman origin, meaning Briton or foreigner. Also a translation of Breathnach, with the same meaning.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English Walsch, from Old English wælisc, variant of wīelisċ, from Proto-West Germanic *walhisk, from Proto-Germanic *walhiskaz; equivalent to wale (“outsider”) + -isch.
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 “Walshe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-A-L-S-H-E - 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.