Junge
\ˈjʊ.ŋə\
The verdict
“Junge” is uncommon French (frequency #89,846 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,846
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Garçon, gamin, (dans le sens de l'enfant masculin).
Corpus desk
Index FR-junge · Junge · French
Junge · rank #89,846 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,846
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH kantienne
Nearest frequency peer: kantienne (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Junge »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jetpack
jetpack
10,159 corpus weight
- jetterais
jetterais
10,158 corpus weight
- jouissive
jouissive
10,157 corpus weight
- Junge
Junge
10,155 corpus weight
- kantienne
kantienne
10,154 corpus weight
- kaos
kaos
10,153 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Junge » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Junge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈjʊ.ŋə\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Junge » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Junge is uncommon French at frequency #89,846 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈjʊ.ŋə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Junge has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Junge, spelled J-U-N-G-E.
Definition
- 1Garçon, gamin, (dans le sens de l'enfant masculin).
- 2Garçon, (dans le sens d'un jeune homme).
- 3Gars.
- 4Apprenti.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Junge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du bist doch schon ein großer Junge.
Mein Sohn ist ein sensibler Junge.
Synonyms
Antonyms
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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