general knowledge
/ˈdʒɛnɹəl ˈnɒlɪdʒ/
"general-knowledge" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“general knowledge” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The wide body of information that a person acquires from education and from life, much of which may be trivial.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | general knowledge |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdʒɛnɹəl ˈnɒlɪdʒ/ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “general knowledge” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
general knowledge is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈdʒɛnɹəl ˈnɒlɪdʒ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The wide body of information that a person acquires from education and from life, much of which may be trivial.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for general knowledge, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is general knowledge, spelled G-E-N-E-R-A-L- -K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E.
Definition
- 1The wide body of information that a person acquires from education and from life, much of which may be trivial.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “general knowledge”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-E-N-E-R-A-L- -K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈdʒɛnɹəl ˈnɒlɪdʒ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.