world champion
"world-champion" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“world champion” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The winner of a world cup or world championship.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | world champion |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “world champion” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
world champion is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The winner of a world cup or world championship.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for world champion, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is world champion, spelled W-O-R-L-D- -C-H-A-M-P-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The winner of a world cup or world championship.
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 “world champion”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-O-R-L-D- -C-H-A-M-P-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.