junco
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#39,303
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
junco is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Juncaceae) Planta de la familia de las júnceas, con cañas de 60 a 80 cm de largo, lisas, cilíndricas, flexibles, puntiagudas, duras, y de color verde oscuro por fuera y blancos en lo interior. Se ... Pronounced [ˈxũŋko]. Often confused with juro and jung.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | junco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈxũŋko] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #39,303 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for junco is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈxũŋko]. Corpus data places it at rank #39,303 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for junco, with forms such as "jjunco", "jnuco", and "jucno". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "juro", "jung", "June", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is junco, spelled J-U-N-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Juncaceae) Planta de la familia de las júnceas, con cañas de 60 a 80 cm de largo, lisas, cilíndricas, flexibles, puntiagudas, duras, y de color verde oscuro por fuera y blancos en lo interior. Se cría en parajes húmedos.
- 2Cada uno de los tallos del junco₁.
- 3Bastón, especialmente cuando es delgado.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jjunco,jnuco,jucno,juncco,junnco,junoc,ujnco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for junco
Misspelling Variants of "junco"
Frequency rank: #39,303 in Spanish
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