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warmongering

noun, verb

warmongering is spelled W-A-R-M-O-N-G-E-R-I-N-G: 12 letters and 4 syllables. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,055th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, warmongering means “bellicism; militarism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of warmongering is warmongerings.

How many letters and syllables are in warmongering?

Letters12: W-A-R-M-O-N-G-E-R-I-N-G
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 5 million words; the 69,055th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is warmongering?

Warmongering appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,055th 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 warmongering?

    Warmongering has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of warmongering

    • warmongerings plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    What does warmongering mean?

    The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

    noun

    1. 1

      bellicism; militarism

    verb

    1. 1

      present participle and gerund of warmonger (a form of warmonger)

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Warmongering in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    In the sense bellicism, militarism:

    LanguageWords
    GermanKriegstreiberei, Kriegsgeschrei

    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.

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