Erster Weltkrieg
The verdict
“Erster 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
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Krieg, der von 1914 bis 1918 in Europa, Afrika, dem Nahen Osten und Ostasien geführt wurde und über 9 Millionen Menschenleben forderte
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Erster Weltkrieg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈeːɐ̯stɐ ˈvɛltkʁiːk] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Erster Weltkrieg” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Erster Weltkrieg is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈeːɐ̯stɐ 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: "Krieg, der von 1914 bis 1918 in Europa, Afrika, dem Nahen Osten und Ostasien geführt wurde und über 9 Millionen Menschenleben forderte".
No misspelling variants are generated for Erster 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 Erster Weltkrieg, spelled E-R-S-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
- 1Krieg, der von 1914 bis 1918 in Europa, Afrika, dem Nahen Osten und Ostasien geführt wurde und über 9 Millionen Menschenleben forderte
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- The one correct German spelling is E-R-S-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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