Dritter Weltkrieg
The verdict
“Dritter Weltkrieg” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Bezeichnung für einen befürchteten, zukünftigen Weltkrieg
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dritter Weltkrieg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈdʁɪtɐ ˈvɛltkʁiːk] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Dritter Weltkrieg” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Dritter Weltkrieg is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈdʁɪtɐ ˈvɛltkʁiːk]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Bezeichnung für einen befürchteten, zukünftigen Weltkrieg".
No misspelling variants are generated for Dritter Weltkrieg in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Dritter Weltkrieg, spelled D-R-I-T-T-E-R- -W-E-L-T-K-R-I-E-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bezeichnung für einen befürchteten, zukünftigen Weltkrieg
This word in other languages
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- The one correct German spelling is D-R-I-T-T-E-R- -W-E-L-T-K-R-I-E-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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