war of aggression

noun

"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 September 3, 2026) - A military conflict waged without the justification of self-defense, usually for territorial gain and subjugation.

Corpus desk

Index EN-war-of-aggression · war of aggression · English

war of aggression · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 17 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "W" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for war of aggression
PropertyValue
Headwordwar of aggression
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “war of aggression” in English

war of aggressionranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    A military conflict waged without the justification of self-defense, usually for territorial gain and subjugation.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how war of aggression appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The crime of war, the crime of the war of aggression, and the crime of aggression are clearly three different crimes with three different facts of the case. For a complex judgment of war, they nonetheless overlap with one another, and their separation seems to a large section of public opinion a mere juridical artifice.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "war of aggression"?
"war of aggression" is spelled W-A-R- -O-F- -A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-O-N.
What does "war of aggression" mean?
As a noun, "war of aggression" means: A military conflict waged without the justification of self-defense, usually for territorial gain and subjugation.
What language does "war of aggression" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list