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junkman

noun

junkman is spelled J-U-N-K-M-A-N: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, junkman means “A seller of junk (miscellaneous articles of low value)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of junkman is junkmen.

How many letters and syllables are in junkman?

Letters7: J-U-N-K-M-A-N
In writingabout once in every 22 million words; the 141,699th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is junkman?

Junkman appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th 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).

Forms of junkman

  • junkmen plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does junkman mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A seller of junk (miscellaneous articles of low value).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Junkman in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense seller of junk – see also scrap dealer:

LanguageWords
GermanSchrotthändler

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 junkman come from?

From junk + man.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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