Walther

name

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The verdict

“Walther” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,262. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#48,262
frequency rank, French
549
“W” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-walther · Walther · French

Walther · rank #48,262 · 11 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #48,262
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 549
  • PHOTO-FINISH véridiques

Nearest frequency peer: véridiques (-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 « Walther »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Walther » 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).

Walther vs water
57% similar
Walther vs weather
57% similar
Walther vs Walter
86% similar

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

Key facts for Walther
PropertyValue
HeadwordWalther
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#48,262
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Walther »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Waltherse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « véridiques » (#48,261), « weight » (#48,263), « voûtée » (#48,260). Parmi 549 lemmes en « W », « Walther » est au #48,262. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around Walther, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #48,262 among 549 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Walther, with forms such as "awlther", "walhter", and "wallther". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "water", "weather", "Walter", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Walther, spelled W-A-L-T-H-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Cette année, l’analyse des eaux et les incrustations ont particulièrement été étudiées, et les industriels trouveront d’intéressantes données sur les anticalcaires dans les recherches de M. Walther.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • awlther
  • walhter
  • wallther
  • waltehr
  • waltherr
  • walthher
  • walthre
  • waltther
  • watlher
  • wlather
  • wwalther

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Walther - 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.

awlther2walhter2wallther1waltehr2waltherr1walthher1walthre2waltther1
Edit distance from "Walther"

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 "Walther"?
"Walther" is spelled W-A-L-T-H-E-R.
What does "Walther" mean?
As a proper noun, "Walther" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Walther"?
"Walther" is commonly confused with "water", "weather", "Walter". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Walther" come from?
"Walther" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list