junta
/ˈhʊntə/noun
junta is a noun meaning “The committee of military officers that have usurped political control” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled J-U-N-T-A and has 2 syllables, and it appears 2.2 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of junta is juntas.
What does junta mean?
noun
- 1
The committee of military officers that have usurped political control.
- 2
A council, convention, tribunal or assembly; especially, the grand council of state in Spain.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce junta?
- UK /ˈdʒʌntə/
- UK /ˈdʒʊntə/
- US /ˈhʊntə/
Junta has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-junta1.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-junta2.wav, En-us-junta.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of junta
- juntas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is junta?
Junta appears 2.2 times per million words in written English, the 18,537th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Junta in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense ruling council of a military dictatorship:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does junta come from?
Borrowed from Spanish junta (literally "a thing gathered or joined"), feminine form of junto, from Latin iunctus, perfect passive participle of iungō (“join”). Attested from 1623.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).