guerre mondiale
\ɡɛʁ mɔ̃.djal\
The verdict
“guerre mondiale” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Conflit militaire mondial, guerre à l’échelle planétaire comme celle de 1914-1918 (Première Guerre mondiale) et celle de 1939-1945 (Seconde Guerre mondiale ou Deuxième Guerre mondiale).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guerre mondiale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɛʁ mɔ̃.djal\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “guerre mondiale” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for guerre mondiale is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡɛʁ mɔ̃.djal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Conflit militaire mondial, guerre à l’échelle planétaire comme celle de 1914-1918 (Première Guerre mondiale) et celle de 1939-1945 (Seconde Guerre mondiale ou Deuxième Guerre mondiale).".
guerre mondiale doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is guerre mondiale, spelled G-U-E-R-R-E- -M-O-N-D-I-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Conflit militaire mondial, guerre à l’échelle planétaire comme celle de 1914-1918 (Première Guerre mondiale) et celle de 1939-1945 (Seconde Guerre mondiale ou Deuxième Guerre mondiale).
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 “guerre mondiale”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-U-E-R-R-E- -M-O-N-D-I-A-L-E - 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.