global
glo·bal/ˈɡloʊ.bəl/adjective, noun, adverb
global is spelled G-L-O-B-A-L, 2 syllables: glo·bal. The wrong spelling people search most is gobal: about 250 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 128 of all searches for the word. Global is an adjective meaning “Concerning all parts of the world”.
How many letters and syllables are in global?
| Letters | 6: G-L-O-B-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: glo·bal |
| In writing | 89 times per million words; the 1,191st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, gobal, about 250 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell global?
Global is spelled G-L-O-B-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 128 of the searches for global in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is global?
Global appears 89 times per million words in written English, the 1,191st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce global?
- UK /ˈɡləʊ.bəl/
- UK [ˈɡləʊ̯b(ə)ɫ]
- US /ˈɡloʊ.bəl/
Global has 2 syllables, split glo·bal in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-global.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with global?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as global from its last stressed vowel (/oʊbəl/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of global
- more global comparative
- most global superlative
- globals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does global mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Concerning all parts of the world.
Pollution is a global problem.
- 2
Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal
- 3
Of a variable, accessible by all parts of a program.
Global variables keep support engineers employed.
- 4
Which has to be considered in its entirety.
- 5
Spherical, ball-shaped.
In the center was a small, global mass.
- 6
Of or relating to a globe or sphere.
noun
- 1
A globally scoped identifier.
adverb
- 1
In the global manner; world-wide.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Global in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | globulaire , global, mondial |
| German | kugelförmig, Kugel- , global, Welt-, weltweit |
| Portuguese | globular, esférico , global, mundial , esferal |
| Spanish | global, mundial |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does global come from?
From globe + -al; compare French global.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).