walk
\valk\
The verdict
“walk” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,069. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,069
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de walken.
Corpus desk
Index FR-walk · walk · French
walk · rank #23,069 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,069
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH volcaniques
Nearest frequency peer: volcaniques (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « walk »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vod
vod
76,935 corpus weight
- volante
volante
76,934 corpus weight
- volcaniques
volcaniques
76,933 corpus weight
- walk
walk
76,932 corpus weight
- wesh
wesh
76,931 corpus weight
- zur
zur
76,929 corpus weight
What this shows « walk » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | walk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \valk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #23,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « walk »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around walk (IPA \valk\), averb. Corpus frequency is #23,069 among 549 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de walken.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for walk, with forms such as "awlk", "wakl", and "walkk". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "was", "way", "war", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is walk, spelled W-A-L-K.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de walken.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- awlk
- wakl
- walkk
- wallk
- wlak
- wwalk
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of walk - 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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).