wallon
\wa.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“wallon” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,694. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,694
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux Wallon, à la Wallonie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wallon · wallon · French
wallon · rank #12,694 · 7 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,694
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH vulnérables
Nearest frequency peer: vulnérables (-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 « wallon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tunnels
tunnels
87,310 corpus weight
- vera
vera
87,309 corpus weight
- vulnérables
vulnérables
87,308 corpus weight
- wallon
wallon
87,307 corpus weight
- Yannick
Yannick
87,306 corpus weight
- yeah
yeah
87,305 corpus weight
What this shows « wallon » 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 | wallon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \wa.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « wallon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around wallon (IPA \wa.lɔ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,694 among 549 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif aux Wallon, à la Wallonie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for wallon, with forms such as "awllon", "wallno", and "wallonn". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "Wilson", "Watson", "willow", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented 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 wallon, spelled W-A-L-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux Wallon, à la Wallonie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wallon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cambrinus acheta alors un pinson aveugle, qu’à la mode des gens du pays wallon, il emporta partout avec lui.
Nous ne quitterons pas ce sujet sans faire remarquer que, généralement, les populations wallonnes parlent le français correctement avec les gens du dehors, et que ce n’est qu’entre elles qu’elles se servent du wallon et du patois de leur contrée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- awllon
- wallno
- wallonn
- waloln
- walon
- wlalon
- wwallon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wallon - 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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