junker
/ˈjʊŋkə(ɹ)/
"junker" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“junker” is an uncommon English word, ranked #59,477 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #59,477
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A young German noble or squire, especially a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia, stereotyped with narrow-minded militaristic and authoritarian attitudes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | junker |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈjʊŋkə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “junker” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for junker is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈjʊŋkə(ɹ)/. Corpus data places it at rank #59,477 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A young German noble or squire, especially a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia, stereotyped with narrow-minded militaristic and authoritarian attitudes.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for junker, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from German Junker, from Middle High German juncherre (“young lord; not yet knighted nobleman”). Compare younker. The correct English form is junker, spelled J-U-N-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1A young German noble or squire, especially a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia, stereotyped with narrow-minded militaristic and authoritarian attitudes.
Etymology
Borrowed from German Junker, from Middle High German juncherre (“young lord; not yet knighted nobleman”). Compare younker.
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.
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Using “junker”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is J-U-N-K-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈjʊŋkə(ɹ)/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.