junky
"junky" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“junky” is uncommon English (frequency #58,127 among 796 “J” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,127
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Resembling or characteristic of junk; cheap, worthless, or of low quality.
Corpus desk
Index EN-junky · junky · English
junky · rank #58,127 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,127
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH judiciously
Nearest frequency peer: judiciously (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “junky”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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jaywalking
41,879 corpus weight
- Jenga
Jenga
41,878 corpus weight
- jinks
jinks
41,877 corpus weight
- judiciously
judiciously
41,875 corpus weight
- junky
junky
41,874 corpus weight
- Kachin
Kachin
41,873 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “junky” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | junky |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “junky” in English
Rare enough to double-check
junky is uncommon English at frequency #58,127 among 796 “J” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for junky in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From junk + -y (adjectival suffix). The correct English form is junky, spelled J-U-N-K-Y.
Definition
- 1Resembling or characteristic of junk; cheap, worthless, or of low quality.
- 2Full of junk.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how junky appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1970–1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed in Pleasure I took my jewelry box & made a bracelet for J from an old broken necklace & the clasp from a junky pink charm bracelet.
We really need to clear out the junky basement.
Etymology
From junk + -y (adjectival suffix).
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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