# worldview

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #20,818

## Definitions
1. A person's personal view of the world and how one interprets it; any ingroup's or society's mainstream view thereof.
2. The totality of one's beliefs about reality.
3. A general philosophy or view of life.

## Etymology
A calque of German Weltanschauung, equivalent to world + view.

## Common misspellings (14)
`owrldview`, `wolrdview`, `wordlview`, `worlddview`, `worldivew`, `worldveiw`, `worldvieww`, `worldviwe`, `worldvview`, `worlldview`, `worlvdiew`, `worrldview`, `wroldview`, `wworldview`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/worldview