junction
/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/noun, verb
junction is spelled J-U-N-C-T-I-O-N: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 8.7 times per million words in written English, the 7,797th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, junction means “The act of joining, or the state of being joined” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of junction is junctions.
How many letters and syllables are in junction?
| Letters | 8: J-U-N-C-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 8.7 times per million words; the 7,797th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is junction?
Junction appears 8.7 times per million words in written English, the 7,797th 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).
How do you pronounce junction?
- /ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/
Junction 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: En-us-junction.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of junction
- junctions plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- junctioning participle, present
- junctioned participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does junction mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
Their collaboration formed a fruitful junction of ideas.
- 2
A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
Turn left at the next road junction.
- 3
A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
The two rail lines meet at a major junction.
- 4
The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
- 5
The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
- 6
A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
- 7
A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
- 8
In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.
verb
- 1
To form a junction.
critical junction
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate junction?
Wiktionary records 7 abbreviations of junction: J, JN, Jn, jct, jct., jctn, jnc..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Junction in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | jonction |
| German | Kreuzung , Knotenpunkt , Grenzzone |
| Portuguese | junção , junta, entroncamento |
| Spanish | juntamiento , juntura, entronque, encrucijada , junción, yunción |
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 junction come from?
From Latin iūnctiō (“union, joining, uniting”), from iungō (“join, attach together”). Equivalent to join + -tion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).