Adjunkt
[ˌatˈjʊnkt]
The verdict
“Adjunkt” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Gehilfe eines Beamten
Corpus desk
Index DE-adjunkt · Adjunkt · German
Adjunkt · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Adjunkt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌatˈjʊnkt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Adjunkt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Adjunkt is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˌatˈjʊnkt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Adjunkt has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Adjunkt, spelled A-D-J-U-N-K-T.
Definition
- 1der Gehilfe eines Beamten
- 2niederer Beamter
- 3höherer Beamter
- 4akademischer Helfer im höheren Bildungs- und Forschungswesen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Adjunkt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Adjunkt des Direktors des Botanischen Gartens ist ihm behilflich.
Der Adjunkt ist in Fällen von Verhinderung des Bibliothekars dessen Stellvertreter.
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.