war of aggression
"war-of-aggression" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“war of aggression” 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) - A military conflict waged without the justification of self-defense, usually for territorial gain and subjugation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | war of aggression |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “war of aggression” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
war of aggression is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A military conflict waged without the justification of self-defense, usually for territorial gain and subjugation.".
Zero misspellings are on record for war of aggression in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is war of aggression, spelled W-A-R- -O-F- -A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1A military conflict waged without the justification of self-defense, usually for territorial gain and subjugation.
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 “war of aggression”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-A-R- -O-F- -A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.