world music
\ˈwɜːld ˈmjuː.zɪk\
The verdict
“world music” 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
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Musique qui combine des éléments de styles traditionnels de peuples non occidentaux avec des éléments modernes et populaires, dans le but de créer des morceaux de musique qui pourraient plaire aux ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | world music |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈwɜːld ˈmjuː.zɪk\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “world music” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for world music is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈwɜːld ˈmjuː.zɪk\. 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: "Musique qui combine des éléments de styles traditionnels de peuples non occidentaux avec des éléments modernes et populaires, dans le but de créer des morceaux de musique qui pourraient plaire aux ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for world music 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 world music, spelled W-O-R-L-D- -M-U-S-I-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Musique qui combine des éléments de styles traditionnels de peuples non occidentaux avec des éléments modernes et populaires, dans le but de créer des morceaux de musique qui pourraient plaire aux Occidentaux.
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 music”
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- The one correct French spelling is W-O-R-L-D- -M-U-S-I-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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