walking
\ˈwɔ.kɪŋ\
The verdict
“walking” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,907. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,907
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe walk.
Corpus desk
Index FR-walking · walking · French
walking · rank #18,907 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,907
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH vista
Nearest frequency peer: vista (-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 « walking »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ventilateur
ventilateur
81,097 corpus weight
- vince
vince
81,096 corpus weight
- vista
vista
81,095 corpus weight
- walking
walking
81,094 corpus weight
- welcome
welcome
81,093 corpus weight
- were
were
81,092 corpus weight
What this shows « walking » 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 | walking |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈwɔ.kɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « walking »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around walking (IPA \ˈwɔ.kɪŋ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,907 among 549 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent du verbe walk.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for walking, with forms such as "awlking", "wakling", and "walikng". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "working", "warning", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is walking, spelled W-A-L-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe walk.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- awlking
- wakling
- walikng
- walkign
- walkingg
- walkinng
- walkking
- walknig
- wallking
- wlaking
- wwalking
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of walking - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "walking", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).