walt
\valt\
The verdict
“walt” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,502. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,502
- 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 walten.
Corpus desk
Index FR-walt · walt · French
walt · rank #11,502 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,502
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH visuels
Nearest frequency peer: visuels (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “walt”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- usure
usure
88,502 corpus weight
- Varsovie
Varsovie
88,501 corpus weight
- visuels
visuels
88,500 corpus weight
- walt
walt
88,499 corpus weight
- Wolf
Wolf
88,498 corpus weight
- WTF
WTF
88,497 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “walt” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | walt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \valt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,502 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “walt” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around walt (IPA \valt\), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,502 among 549 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de walten.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for walt, with forms such as "awlt", "wallt", and "waltt". 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, 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is walt, spelled W-A-L-T.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de walten.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- awlt
- wallt
- waltt
- watl
- wlat
- wwalt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of walt - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "walt", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).
What to do next
You've looked up "walt". Here's where to go from here.
- "walt" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "was". View pair
- 6 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #11,502 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "W" letter cohort. W–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.