jungle

/\ʒœ̃ɡl\/ noun

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.

Key facts for jungle
PropertyValue
Headwordjungle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒœ̃ɡl\
Letters6
Frequency rank#7,584
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of jungle in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    Forêt tropicale ou équatoriale peuplée d’animaux sauvages.
  3. 3
    Milieu où le plus fort impose sa volonté. → voir loi de la jungle
  4. 4
    Milieu où l'on se sent faible et désorienté.
  5. 5
    Lieu où la végétation est touffue.
  6. 6
    Aire de campements désignée autrefois comme les lieux d’habitations des hobos américains, ou récemment des migrants vivant à une frontière.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: jjungle,jnugle,jugnle,jungel,junggle,junglle,junlge,junngle,ujngle

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jungle

Misspelling Variants of "jungle"

jjungle7jnugle6jugnle6jungel6junggle7junglle7junlge6junngle7
Misspelling Variants of "jungle"

Frequency rank: #7,584 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jungle"?
"jungle" is spelled J-U-N-G-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒœ̃ɡl\.
What does "jungle" mean?
As a noun, "jungle" 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.
What words are commonly confused with "jungle"?
"jungle" is commonly confused with "junte", "juge", "jung". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "jungle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jungle" is \ʒœ̃ɡl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jungle" come from?
"jungle" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.