Première Guerre mondiale
The verdict
“Première 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
- 24
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Conflit armé à l’échelle planétaire, qui dura d’août 1914 à novembre 1918.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Première Guerre mondiale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁə.mjɛʁ ɡɛʁ mɔ̃.djal\ |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Première Guerre mondiale” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Première Guerre mondiale is 24 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁə.mjɛʁ 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 armé à l’échelle planétaire, qui dura d’août 1914 à novembre 1918.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Première Guerre mondiale in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Première Guerre mondiale, spelled P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E- -G-U-E-R-R-E- -M-O-N-D-I-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Conflit armé à l’échelle planétaire, qui dura d’août 1914 à novembre 1918.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E- -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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