Zweiter Weltkrieg
The verdict
“Zweiter 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: größter und blutigster zusammenhängender Konflikt in der Geschichte der Menschheit, der 1937 in Asien und 1939 in Europa begann und 1945 endete
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zweiter Weltkrieg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈt͡svaɪ̯tɐ ˈvɛltkʁiːk] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Zweiter Weltkrieg” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Zweiter Weltkrieg is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡svaɪ̯tɐ 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: "größter und blutigster zusammenhängender Konflikt in der Geschichte der Menschheit, der 1937 in Asien und 1939 in Europa begann und 1945 endete".
No misspelling variants are generated for Zweiter 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 Zweiter Weltkrieg, spelled Z-W-E-I-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
- 1größter und blutigster zusammenhängender Konflikt in der Geschichte der Menschheit, der 1937 in Asien und 1939 in Europa begann und 1945 endete
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- The one correct German spelling is Z-W-E-I-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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