Jungfrau
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,939
in German word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
Jungfrau is aGermanname. It means: eine weibliche Person, die noch nie Geschlechtsverkehr hatte Pronounced [ˈjʊŋfʁaʊ̯]. It ranks #6,939 in German word frequency. Often confused with Jungfrauen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jungfrau |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | [ˈjʊŋfʁaʊ̯] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Jungfrau is 8 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjʊŋfʁaʊ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,939 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for Jungfrau, with forms such as "jjungfrau", "jnugfrau", and "jugnfrau". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Jungfrauen", 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 Jungfrau, spelled J-U-N-G-F-R-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine weibliche Person, die noch nie Geschlechtsverkehr hatte
- 2männliche Person, die noch nie Geschlechtsverkehr hatte
- 3ein Sternbild am nördlichen und südlichen Sternenhimmel
- 4eines der zwölf Tierkreiszeichen (Sternzeichen, ohne Plural), ein in diesem Sternzeichen Geborener
- 5eine fehlerfrei gesetzte Seite, die keine Korrekturzeichen enthält
- 6eine unverheiratete, junge Frau, die später auch Fräulein genannt wurde
- 7Spieler, der beim Ramschen keinen einzigen Stich gemacht hat
- 8eine Figur aus dem Dreigestirn des Kölner Karnevals
- 9die Jungfrau Maria, die Heilige Jungfrau
- 10Kurzbezeichnung für Ehrenjungfrau, Brautjungfrau
- 11beim österreichischen Bundesheer eine noch nicht vereidigte Soldatin
- 12kurz für Friedrich Schillers Tragödie Die Jungfrau von Orleans (→Wikipedia)
- 13die englische Königin Elisabeth I.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jjungfrau,jnugfrau,jugnfrau,junfgrau,jungfaru,jungffrau,jungfrrau,jungfrua,junggfrau,jungrfau,junngfrau,ujngfrau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Jungfrau
Misspelling Variants of "Jungfrau"
Frequency rank: #6,939 in German
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Nearby German words
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