Jünger
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,803
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Jünger is aGermannoun. It means: einer der zunächst zwölf Männer, die Schüler und Anhänger von Jesus waren und die später als Apostel das Evangelium verkündeten Pronounced [ˈjʏŋɐ]. It ranks #4,803 in German word frequency. Often confused with Jungs and Jürgen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jünger |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈjʏŋɐ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,803 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Jünger is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjʏŋɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,803 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Jünger, with forms such as "jjünger", "jnüger", and "jügner". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Jungs", "Jürgen", "Junior", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 German form is Jünger, spelled J-Ü-N-G-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1einer der zunächst zwölf Männer, die Schüler und Anhänger von Jesus waren und die später als Apostel das Evangelium verkündeten
- 2jemand, der von einer Sache oder einer Person überzeugt ist und dieser anhängt; jemand, der ein Schüler einer Person ist
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jjünger,jnüger,jügner,jünegr,jüngerr,jüngger,jüngre,jünnger,üjnger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Jünger
Misspelling Variants of "Jünger"
Frequency rank: #4,803 in German
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