Wallet

Definition: Wallet

Wallet

Noun

1. A pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money.

Date "wallet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Etymology: Wallet \Wal"let\, noun. [from Old English expression walet, probably the same word as Old English watel bag. See Wattle.]. (references)

Domain	Definition
Dream Interpretation	To see wallets in a dream, foretells burdens of a pleasant nature will await your discretion as to assuming them. An old or soiled one, implies unfavorable results from your labors. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Wallet

Synonyms: billfold (n), notecase (n), pocketbook (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Receptacle	Pocket, pouch, fob, sheath, scabbard, socket, bag, sac, sack, saccule, wallet, cardcase, scrip, poke, knit, knapsack, haversack, sachel, satchel, reticule, budget, net; ditty bag, ditty box; housewife, hussif; saddlebags; portfolio; quiver; (magazine).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Wallet

English words defined with "wallet": Be ♦ cop ♦ Gaber-lunzie, glom, grogginess ♦ hook ♦ knock off ♦ Portemonnaie ♦ Scrippage, semiconsciousness, snitch, steal, stupefaction, stupor ♦ thieve ♦ Walleteer. (references)

Specialty definitions using "wallet": Antisthenes ♦ FOLDING-MACHINE OPERATOR, Fools, Friar Tuck ♦ Grey Hen, gusset folder ♦ hippie-crit ♦ MEDIUM ♦ Symbols of Saints ♦ zipper-lining folder. (references)

Etymologies containing "wallet": Walleteer. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	When I was 11, I stole $32 from your wallet. (Deep Impact; writing credit: Bruce Joel Rubin; Michael Tolkin) Yeah I always keep a spare mouse in my wallet for occasions such as this (The Green Mile; writing credit: Frank Darabont) Someone seems to have stuck a knife in my wallet. (Octopussy; writing credit: George MacDonald Fraser) Took it from Mother's wallet. (Sneakers; writing credit: Phil Alden Robinson, Lawrence Lasker, and Walter F. Parkes.) Hand me my wallet. (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary)
Lyrics	And you spend your life puttin' money in his wallet ("9 to 5"; performing artist: Dolly Parton) Putting money in his wallet (9 To 5; performing artist: Dolly Parton) That someone had stolen my wallet. (In Old Mexico; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)
Movie/TV Titles	The Brown Wallet (1936) Watch Your Wallet (1922) The Missing Wallet (1917) Mr. Wallack's Wallet (1915) The Story of a Wallet (1912)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Wallet of Kai Lung (reference) Wine Wallet Wizard: A Portable Wine Consultant and Menu Planner (reference) Coffee Square Notecard Wallet (reference) Gargoyles Square Notecard Wallet (reference) Johnston New King James Nt: Black Cd Wallet [ABRIDGED] (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Journey to the Center of Your Wallet (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	SANDISK SDAC-102 Flash Memory Wallet (reference) MyChecks Wallet 3-UP (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	With the very last spadeful taken from under the post, came the wallet and money. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
William Shakespeare	Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Mexico	The authorities dismissed robbery as a motive because the victim was found with his wallet and camera. (references)
Travel	Mexico	If necessary, write any PIN numbers on a piece of paper and carry it with you separate from your wallet. (references)
Worker Rights	Bulgaria	In April 2000, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched a trafficking awareness campaign in the country which included posting informational posters, distributing wallet cards and brochures, and broadcasting informational advertisements on radio and television. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Wallet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.83% of the time. "Wallet" is used about 596 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.83%	595	10,710
Noun (common)	0.17%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	596	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "wallet" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Wallet	Last name	130	59,260
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "wallet": leather wallet ♦ wallet maker ♦ waltz off with smb.'s wallet. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "wallet": wallet-busting, wallet-first, wallet-sized.
	Ending with "wallet": document-wallet.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "wallet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		portefeulje. (various references)

Albanian		qese (bag, pouch, purse, sachet), kuletë (billfold, handbag, pocket book, pouch, purse). (various references)

Arabic		‏محفظة (billfold, briefcase, handbag, pocket book, portfolio, purse), ‏حقيبة سفر (grip, suitcase, valise). (various references)

Basque		diruzorroa. (various references)

Breton		doug-paperoù. (various references)

Bulgarian		сак (carryall, grip, kitbag, landing net, sack, vesicle), чанта за инструменти (workbag), торба (bag, bagful, grab-all, pack, pouch, receptacle, sack, swag), портфейл (notecase, pocket book, portfolio). (various references)

Catalan		cartera. (various references)

Chinese		錢袋 (purse), 錢包 (purse), 钱包 (Purse). (various references)

Cornish		tygen. (various references)

Croatian		novèanik. (various references)

Czech		penìženku, penìženka (billfold, purse), náprsní taška (billfold, notecase, Wallie), brašna (bag, grip). (various references)

Danish		tegnebog, børs (purse). (various references)

Dutch		portefeuille (portfolio). (various references)

Esperanto		monujon, monujo (purse), monbiletujo. (various references)

Faeroese		pungur (bag, purse, sack), pengapungur (purse). (various references)

Farsi		کیف پول (Pouch, Purse), کیف جیبی . (various references)

Finnish		lompakko (billfold, pocket-book). (various references)

Flemish		portefeuille. (various references)

French		portefeuille, sacoche. (various references)

French Canadian		portefeuille. (various references)

Galician		carteira. (various references)

German		Brieftasche (billfold, notecase, pocketbook, purse). (various references)

Greek		πορτοφόλι (pocketbook, purse). (various references)

Haitian Creole		bous. (various references)

Hebrew		ארנק (bag, pocket book, purse). (various references)

Hungarian		levéltárca (billfold, note case, note-case, pocketbook). (various references)

Icelandic		veskinu (the wallet). (various references)

Indonesian		kocek (purse), dompet (billfold, pocket book, purse). (various references)

Italian		portafoglio (billfold, pocketbook, portfolio). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		財布 (purse), 金入れ (purse, till), 紙入れ (purse), 札入れ (billfold). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		さついれ (billfold), さいふ (purse, recording a tune in musical notes, writing melody on music paper), かねいれ (purse, till), かみいれ (purse). (various references)

Korean		지갑 (Purse). (various references)

Luxembourgish		portefeuille. (various references)

Manx		wollad. (various references)

Mohawk		yehwihstarakhwa. (various references)

Norwegian		pung (purse), pengepung (purse), børs (purse, stock exchange). (various references)

Papago		huashomi. (various references)

Papiamen		pòtmòni (purse). (various references)

Pig Latin		alletway.(various references)

Polish		portfel (purse). (various references)

Portuguese		carteira (desk, lectern, pocket-book, purse, school desk, student desk, writing-table), bolsa (bag, bourse, carryall, cod, exchange, handbag, pocket, pouch, purse). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian		carteira (license). (various references)

Romanian		trusã cu unelte, traistã (bag, knapsack, pouch), portofel (letter box, purse), desagã (kit). (various references)

Romansch		portafegl. (various references)

Russian		бумажник (billfold, note case, notecase, pocket book). (various references)

Scottish		màileid (a bag, bag, budget, sack), balg (belly, belly; blister, leather bag). (various references)

Sepedi		sepatahe. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		novčanik (billfold, notecase, purse), buđelar. (various references)

Shona		chikwama. (various references)

Sicilian		portafogghiu. (various references)

Slovene		denarnico. (various references)

Somali		boorsadaydii (my wallet). (various references)

Spanish		cartera (bag, billfold, briefcase, dispatch box, file, handbag, notecase, pannier, pannier bag, pocketbook, portfolio, purse, saddlebag, satchel, school bag), portamonedas (pocketbook, purse). (various references)

Swahili		pochi (purse). (various references)

Swedish		plånbok (billfold, note case, pocketbook). (various references)

Tagalog		pitaka. (various references)

Tahitian		put’. (various references)

Turkish		portföy, dağarcık, cüzdan (billfold, pocket book, purse). (various references)

Ukrainian		сумка (bag, case, pouch, sac), торба (bundle, pouch, scrip), клунок (bundle), гаманець (budget, burse, pouch, purse), гаман для паперів. (various references)

Vietnamese		túi dết cặp đựng giấy má bao da, đãy. (various references)

Welsh		ysgrepan (scrip), gwaled. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	ascopam, cassidile, pera, saccelli, sacci, saccino, saccis, sacco, saccorum, saccos, saccum. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	male. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Luke Chapter 10, Verse 4
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Mh bastazete balantion mh phran mhde upodhmata kai mhdena kata thn odon aspashsqe
Latin	405	Vulgate	Nolite portare sacculum neque peram neque calciamenta et neminem per viam salutaveritis
Old English	990	West Saxon	Ne bere ge sacc. ne codd. ne gescy. ne nanne man be wege ne gretað;
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Therfor nyle ye bere a sachel, nethir scrippe, nethir schoon, and greete ye no man bi the weie.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Beare noo wallet nether scryppe nor shues and salute noo man by the waye.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Carry neither purse, nor sack, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Take no bag for money or for food, and no shoes; say no word to any man on the way.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Luke Chapter 10, Verse 4
Cebuano	Ayaw kamo pagdalag puyo, o puntil, o mga sapin; ug ayaw kamo paghunong aron sa pakighimamat kang bisan kinsa diha sa dalan.
Croatian	Ne nosite sa sobom ni kese, ni torbe, ni obuæe. I nikoga putem ne pozdravljajte.
Danish	Bærer ikke Pung, ikke Taske, ej heller Sko; og hilser ingen på Vejen!
Dutch	Draagt geen buidel, noch male, noch schoenen; en groet niemand op den weg.
Finnish	Älkää ottako mukaanne rahakukkaroa, älkää laukkua, älkää kenkiä, älkääkä tervehtikö ketään tiellä.
French	Ne portez ni bourse, ni sac, ni souliers, et ne saluez personne en chemin.
German	Tragt keinen Beutel noch Tasche noch Schuhe und grüßet niemand auf der Straße.
Haitian Creole	Pa pote ni lajan, ni manje, ni soulye. Pa rete nan di pesonn bonjou nan chemen an.
Hungarian	Ne hordozzatok erszényt, se táskát, se sarut; és az úton senkit ne köszöntsetek.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Jangan membawa dompet atau kantong sedekah, ataupun sepatu. Jangan berhenti di tengah jalan untuk memberi salam kepada seorangpun juga.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Jangan membawa pundi-pundi, atau tempat bekal, atau kasut; dan jangan memberi salam kepada barang seorang pun di jalan.
Italian	non portate borsa, né bisaccia, né sandali e non salutate nessuno lungo la strada.
Latvian	Nenesiet lîdz nedz naudas maku, nedz somu, nedz kurpes un nevienu ceïâ nesveiciniet!
Manx Gaelic	Ny cur-jee lhieu sporran, ny spagey, ny braagyn: as ny jean-jee cumrail ayns goltaghey dooinney erbee er y raad.
Maori	Kaua e mauria he takotoranga moni, kaua he putea, kaua he hu: kaua ano e oha atu ki tetahi ai te huarahi.
Norwegian	Bær ikke pung, ikke skreppe, ikke sko; gi eder ikke i tale med nogen på veien!
Portuguese	Não leveis bolsa, nem alforge, nem alparcas; e a ninguém saudeis pelo caminho.
Rumanian	Sq nu luayi cu voi nici pungq, nici traistq, nici kncqlyqminte, wi sq nu kntrebayi pe nimeni de sqnqtate pe drum.
Russian	оЕ ВЕТЙФЕ ОЙ НЕЫЛБ, ОЙ УХНЩ, ОЙ ПВХЧЙ, Й ОЙЛПЗП ОБ ДПТПЗЕ ОЕ РТЙЧЕФУФЧХКФЕ.
Shuar	Yurumkasha, kuitcha, sapatcha Júkiirap; shuarjai Jintiá áujmamsatai tusarum wajasairap.
Spanish	No llevéis bolsa, ni alforjas, ni calzado; ni saludéis a nadie por el camino.
Swahili	Msichukue mfuko wa fedha, mkoba, wala viatu; msimsalimu mtu yeyote njiani.
Swedish	Bären ingen penningpung, ingen ränsel, inga skor, och hälsen icke på någon under vägen.
Uma	Neo' ngkeni karepe' doi ba boku ba sapatu' ropasa. Neo' mengkahae mpololitai tauna hi lengko ohea.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "wallet": wallets. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Wallet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Allett, nallet, sallet, walet, walft, walle, wallect, wallen, walley, wallok, Wallwitz, wallwt, wellen, Wellent, willem, willen, willeo, willeth, willett, Woollett, wulle. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "wallet" (pronounced wô"lut)
3	-l u t	amulet, anklet, appellate, articulate, autopilot, ballot, billet, booklet, boomlet, bracelet, branchlet, bullet, Charlotte, chocolate, collet, consulate, copilot, immaculate, inarticulate, desolate, droplet, emasculate, eyelet, Gantlet, gauntlet, giblet, goblet, gullet, hamlet, harlot, helot, inviolate, lancelet, leaflet, mallet, Merlot, Millet, mullet, omelet, palate, palette, pallet, pamphlet, particulate, pellet, piglet, pilot, platelet, prelate, quintuplet, scarlet, sextuplet, skillet, starlet, tablet, template, templet, toilet, triplet, ultraviolet, Violet, zealot.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-l-l-t-w"
	-2 letters: late, leal, tael, tale, tall, teal, tela, tell, twae, wale, wall, weal, well, welt.
	-3 letters: ale, all, alt, ate, awe, awl, eat, ell, eta, lat, law, lea, let, tae, taw, tea, tel, tew, twa, wae, wat, wet.
	-4 letters: ae, al, at, aw, el, et, la, ta, we.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-l-l-t-w"
	+1 letter: wallets.
	+2 letters: tallowed.
	+3 letters: awfullest, callowest, sallowest, stairwell, stonewall, waterfall, wealthily, whitewall.
	+4 letters: shallowest, stairwells, stonewalls, wastefully, waterfalls, whitewalls, yellowtail.
	+5 letters: stonewalled, stonewaller, whistleable, yellowtails.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
wallet	1,742	fendi wallet	94
man wallet	594	passport wallet	81
msn wallet	532	credit card wallet	79
leather wallet	416	buxton wallet	76
gucci wallet	335	man gucci wallet	75
yahoo wallet	238	designer wallet	74
fat wallet	216	money clip wallet	70
cd wallet	202	lady wallet	55
louis vuitton wallet	183	checkbook wallet	46
prada wallet	168	waterproof wallet	45
coach wallet	158	fossil wallet	41
digital wallet	150	taxi wallet	39
womens wallet	136	lv wallet	37
duct tape wallet	130	key wallet	37
burberry wallet	121	badge wallet	35
wallet chain	117	wrist wallet	35
e wallet	111	alligator wallet	32
travel wallet	107	roxy wallet	32
man leather wallet	98	front pocket wallet	31
magic wallet	97	kate spade wallet	30
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.


"Clip wallet & money" by Simon Cataudo Commentary: "Clip wallet & money. Taken 7 November 2003."	"O'neill close up" by Vince Pataky Commentary: "Just an o'neill wallet."
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

Wallet

Definition: Wallet

Wallet

Noun

Specialty Definition: Wallet

Synonyms: Wallet

Synonyms within Context: Wallet

Receptacle

Crosswords: Wallet

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