Juninho

name

The verdict

“Juninho” is uncommon French (frequency #74,118 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#74,118
frequency rank, French
957
“J” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-juninho · Juninho · French

Juninho · rank #74,118 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #74,118
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 957
  • PHOTO-FINISH JSON

Nearest frequency peer: JSON (-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 « Juninho »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Juninho » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Juninho
PropertyValue
HeadwordJuninho
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#74,118
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Juninho » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Juninhotombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « JSON » (#74,117), « Kaliningrad » (#74,119), « kazakhs » (#74,121). Parmi 957 lemmes en « J », « Juninho » est au #74,118. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Juninho is uncommon French at frequency #74,118 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".

Juninho doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Juninho, spelled J-U-N-I-N-H-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom masculin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Juninho appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La finesse de coup franc de Lionel Messi à la demi-heure de jeu face à Nice, samedi, a rappelé aux plus anciens les frappes tout en finesse de Maradona, Platini, Zico ; par opposition aux canonniers modernes que sont Juninho et Cristiano Ronaldo.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Juninho"?
"Juninho" is spelled J-U-N-I-N-H-O.
What does "Juninho" mean?
As a proper noun, "Juninho" means: Prénom masculin.
What language does "Juninho" come from?
"Juninho" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Juninho", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list