jund
"jund" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“jund” is uncommon English (frequency #75,103 among 4,872 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,103
- frequency rank, English
- 4,872
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An Arab military colony in the conquered lands of early caliphates.
Corpus desk
Index EN-jund · jund · English
jund · rank #75,103 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,103
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,872
- PHOTO-FINISH Jubal
Nearest frequency peer: Jubal (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “jund”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Jordana
Jordana
24,904 corpus weight
- Joslin
Joslin
24,902 corpus weight
- Jubal
Jubal
24,899 corpus weight
- jund
jund
24,898 corpus weight
- kab
kab
24,895 corpus weight
- Kaden
Kaden
24,893 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “jund” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jund |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #75,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jund” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
jund is uncommon English at frequency #75,103 among 4,872 “J” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An Arab military colony in the conquered lands of early caliphates.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for jund, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Arabic جُنْد (jund, “army”). The correct English form is jund, spelled J-U-N-D.
Definition
- 1An Arab military colony in the conquered lands of early caliphates.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how jund appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
After the Muslim conquest of Oriens in the thirties, the various Arab tribes were settled in the famous four junds, military circumscriptions into which Syria was divided.
Etymology
From Arabic جُنْد (jund, “army”).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.