junto
/ˈd͡ʒʌn.toʊ/obsolete
junto is a noun meaning “A group of men assembled for some common purpose; a club, or cabal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled J-U-N-T-O and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of junto is juntos or juntoes.
What does junto mean?
noun
- 1
archaicA group of men assembled for some common purpose; a club, or cabal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce junto?
- UK /ˈd͡ʒʌn.təʊ/
- UK /ˈd͡ʒʊn.təʊ/
- US /ˈd͡ʒʌn.toʊ/
Junto has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is junto?
Junto appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd 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).
Where does junto come from?
Erroneous adaptation of junta, by assimilation with Spanish nouns in -o.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).