jungle
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,584
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
jungle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Type de forêt dense et exotique peuplée d’animaux sauvages, rencontrée dans les pays de mousson, comme en Asie du sud-est, notamment en Inde. Pronounced \ʒœ̃ɡl\. It ranks #7,584 in French word frequency. Often confused with junte and juge.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jungle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒœ̃ɡl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,584 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jungle is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒœ̃ɡl\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,584 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for jungle, with forms such as "jjungle", "jnugle", and "jugnle". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "junte", "juge", "jung", 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 French form is jungle, spelled J-U-N-G-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Type de forêt dense et exotique peuplée d’animaux sauvages, rencontrée dans les pays de mousson, comme en Asie du sud-est, notamment en Inde.
- 2Forêt tropicale ou équatoriale peuplée d’animaux sauvages.
- 3Milieu où le plus fort impose sa volonté. → voir loi de la jungle
- 4Milieu où l'on se sent faible et désorienté.
- 5Lieu où la végétation est touffue.
- 6Aire de campements désignée autrefois comme les lieux d’habitations des hobos américains, ou récemment des migrants vivant à une frontière.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jjungle,jnugle,jugnle,jungel,junggle,junglle,junlge,junngle,ujngle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "jungle"
Frequency rank: #7,584 in French
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