junk
[dʒʌŋk]
The verdict
“junk” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #46,765. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,765
- frequency rank, German
- 699
- “J” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - alte oder minderwertige, nutzlose, wertlose Dinge
Corpus desk
Index DE-junk · junk · German
junk · rank #46,765 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,765
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 699
- PHOTO-FINISH Jugendalter
Nearest frequency peer: Jugendalter (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „junk“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Jud
Jud
53,238 corpus weight
- Jugendalter
Jugendalter
53,237 corpus weight
- junk
junk
53,236 corpus weight
- Jurastudium
Jurastudium
53,235 corpus weight
- jährigem
jährigem
53,234 corpus weight
- Kamenz
Kamenz
53,233 corpus weight
What this shows „junk“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | junk |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [dʒʌŋk] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #46,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „junk“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around junk (IPA [dʒʌŋk]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,765 among 699 “J” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for junk, with forms such as "jjunk", "jnuk", and "jukn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jus", "Jux", "Just", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is junk, spelled J-U-N-K.
Definition
- 1alte oder minderwertige, nutzlose, wertlose Dinge
- 2chinesisches Segelboot mit flachem Boden
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jjunk
- jnuk
- jukn
- junkk
- junnk
- ujnk
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of junk - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "junk", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).