walter
/ˈwɔltɚ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.36 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A male given name from the Germanic languages.
name
A surname.
name
An unincorporated community in Cullman County, Alabama, United States.
name
A township in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, United States.
Example Sentences
- "Whitmore. And so am I; my name is Walter Whitmore. / How now! why start'st thou? what! doth death affright? Suffolk. Thy name affrights me, in whose sound is death. / A cunning man did calculate my birth, / And told me that by Water I should die. / Yet let not this make thee be bloody-minded; / Thy name is - Gaultier, being rightly sounded."
- "And with some appellations, the contrary applies. Like Walter, for instance. You can't be Walter in a pram. You can't be Walter until you're about seventy-five in my view."
- "Walter complained about the assault and isolation of the volunteers. Two policemen immediately grabbed him and dragged him to the punishment cells."
- "On the podcast, Gaines and his co-host Walter Weekes (Fresh), regularly refer to women as “hoes” or 304s (304 on an upside-down calculator looks like the word “hoe”)."
- "Prof Barbara Walter notes in her book How Civil Wars Start that two conditions are key: ethnic factionalism and anocracy – when a country is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic."
Etymology
A Germanic name, from Middle English Walter, from Old Northern French Waltier, from Frankish *Waltheri (compare Old High German Waltheri, which see for more details), from Proto-West Germanic *Waldahari, from Proto-Germanic *Waldaharjaz, from *waldą (“ruler”) + *harjaz (“army, host”). Related to Old English Waldhere. Compare herald and Harold, in which these elements are reversed.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈwɔltɚ/
- British English: /ˈwɒltə/