piece of junk
"piece-of-junk" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“piece of junk” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see piece, of, junk.
Corpus desk
Index EN-piece-of-junk · piece of junk · English
piece of junk · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piece of junk |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “piece of junk” in English
Rare enough to double-check
piece of junk is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for piece of junk, 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is piece of junk, spelled P-I-E-C-E- -O-F- -J-U-N-K.
Definition
- 1Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see piece, of, junk.
- 2A bad person or thing; an object of poor quality.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how piece of junk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eggman: Hmph! I tossed that piece of junk at the beach already!
My computer thinks I'm gay / I threw that piece of junk away
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.