junker
\ʒuŋ.kɛʁ\
The verdict
“junker” is uncommon French (frequency #58,047 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,047
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aristocrate prussien non titré dont la noblesse repose sur la propriété foncière en Prusse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-junker · junker · French
junker · rank #58,047 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,047
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH jugeote
Nearest frequency peer: jugeote (-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 « junker »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- joignit
joignit
41,957 corpus weight
- joules
joules
41,956 corpus weight
- jugeote
jugeote
41,955 corpus weight
- junker
junker
41,954 corpus weight
- jurait
jurait
41,952 corpus weight
- koen
koen
41,951 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « junker » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | junker |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒuŋ.kɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #58,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « junker » en français
Rare enough to double-check
junker is uncommon French at frequency #58,047 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒuŋ.kɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Aristocrate prussien non titré dont la noblesse repose sur la propriété foncière en Prusse.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for junker, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is junker, spelled J-U-N-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1Aristocrate prussien non titré dont la noblesse repose sur la propriété foncière en Prusse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how junker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les carabines de luxe, les couteaux à cran d’arrêt pour junkers, les brownings pour émeutiers distingués, les lames, les dagues à sanglier qui sont étalés là dans une ordonnance de musée, ne peuvent être que de Paris, ville des crimes passionnels et des coups de poignard.
Gunther von Löwenberg avait beaucoup perdu de sa superbe de jadis qui en faisait un oracle écouté des junkers de Cottbus.
This word in other languages
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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