june
/d͡ʒun/verb
june is spelled J-U-N-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 162 times per million words in written English, the 625th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting June, the name). As a verb, june means “To rush” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in june?
| Letters | 4: J-U-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 162 times per million words; the 625th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is june?
June appears 162 times per million words in written English, the 625th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes June, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce june?
- UK /d͡ʒuːn/
- UK /d͡ʒjuːn/
- US /d͡ʒun/
June has one syllable (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-June.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with june?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as june from its last stressed vowel (/un/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of june
- junes present, singular, he/she/it
- juning participle, present
- juned participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does june mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
datedslangTo rush.
proper noun
- 1
The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar, following May and preceding July, containing the northern solstice.
Holonyms: calendar year; year
- 2
A female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English], for a girl born in June, used since the end of the 19th century.
- 3
A male given name, or more often nickname, for a boy who is junior to someone else, especially someone with the same name, such as his father.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:June.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
June in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense sixth month of the Gregorian calendar:
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.