junker
\ʒuŋ.kɛʁ\
The verdict
“junker” is uncommon French (frequency #58,047 among 47,938 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,047
- frequency rank, French
- 47,938
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Aristocrate prussien non titré dont la noblesse repose sur la propriété foncière en Prusse.
| 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) |
Where “junker” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
junker is uncommon French at frequency #58,047 among 47,938 “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.
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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Using “junker”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is J-U-N-K-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒuŋ.kɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.