Walsh

name

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The verdict

“Walsh” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,456. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#22,456
frequency rank, French
549
“W” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
15
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-walsh · Walsh · French

Walsh · rank #22,456 · 8 variants · 15 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #22,456
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 549
  • PHOTO-FINISH votant

Nearest frequency peer: votant (-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 « Walsh »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Walsh » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Walsh vs was
40% similar
Walsh vs wars
40% similar
Walsh vs walt
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Walsh
PropertyValue
HeadwordWalsh
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters5
Frequency rank#22,456
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Walsh »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Walshse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « votant » (#22,455), « would » (#22,457), « viva » (#22,454). Parmi 549 lemmes en « W », « Walsh » est au #22,456. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around Walsh, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #22,456 among 549 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Walsh, with forms such as "awlsh", "walhs", and "wallsh". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "was", "wars", "walt", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Walsh, spelled W-A-L-S-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Walsh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Anthony Loyd (presse écrite, « The Times »), Maurine Mercier (radio, RTS - France Info), Nick Paton Walsh, Brice Lainé, Natalie Galloné et Étienne Dupont (TV, CNN) et Siegfried Modola (photo, free-lance), ont été récompensés ; ce dernier pour un reportage en Birmanie.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • awlsh
  • walhs
  • wallsh
  • walshh
  • walssh
  • waslh
  • wlash
  • wwalsh

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Walsh - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

awlsh2walhs2wallsh1walshh1walssh1waslh2wlash2wwalsh1
Edit distance from "Walsh"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Walsh"?
"Walsh" is spelled W-A-L-S-H.
What does "Walsh" mean?
As a proper noun, "Walsh" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Walsh"?
"Walsh" is commonly confused with "was", "wars", "walt". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Walsh" come from?
"Walsh" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Walsh", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

would#22,457Vitry#22,453Édith#22,464truck#22,447

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

UNICEF8 variantsthing8 variantsalpine8 variantsserial8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list