wallvswallsWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: wall is a noun, walls is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“wall” is a noun and “walls” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#6,824
“wall” frequency rank
#26,596
“walls” frequency rank
33420
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature wall walls
Definition parede terceira pessoa do singular do presente indicativo do verbo wall.

Letter map: wall vs walls

Shared letters muted; letters that set wall and walls apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

4 ch
wall
5 ch
walls

Part-of-speech tell for wall / walls

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: wall is anoun and wallsaverb. On the page they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “wall” sits inside “walls”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33420, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

wall is recorded at frequency rank #6,824, classified as anoun, pronounced /wɔːl/. walls is at rank #26,596, tagged as averb.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 33420, this pair ranks #34,110 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of wall vs walls

Shared letters: alw. Private to "wall": -. Private to "walls": s.

"wall" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "walls" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • wallawll · wlal · wwall
  • wallsawlls · wallss · wals · walsl · wlals · wwalls

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "wall" and "walls" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "wall" is a noun and "walls" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "wall" or "walls"?
"wall" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,824 in our Portuguese list, against #26,596 for "walls". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "wall" and "walls". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "wall" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "walls" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #34,110 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "wall" and "walls" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Wal vs walls". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #34,110 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list