walser
The verdict
“walser” is an uncommon French word, ranked #93,385 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #93,385
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ensemble de dialectes alémaniques parlés par les Walser, des populations alpines originaire du Haut-Valais et dispersées entre le Val d’Aoste, en Italie, et l’ouest de l’Autriche.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | walser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,385 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “walser” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for walser is 6 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #93,385 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ensemble de dialectes alémaniques parlés par les Walser, des populations alpines originaire du Haut-Valais et dispersées entre le Val d’Aoste, en Italie, et l’ouest de l’Autriche.".
No misspelling variants are generated for walser in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is walser, spelled W-A-L-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de dialectes alémaniques parlés par les Walser, des populations alpines originaire du Haut-Valais et dispersées entre le Val d’Aoste, en Italie, et l’ouest de l’Autriche.
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Frequency rank: #93,385 in French
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Using “walser”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is W-A-L-S-E-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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