junkie
\dʒœn.ki\
The verdict
“junkie” is uncommon French (frequency #52,140 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,140
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne présentant une dépendance à une drogue (en particulier à une drogue dure).
Corpus desk
Index FR-junkie · junkie · French
junkie · rank #52,140 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,140
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Judi
Nearest frequency peer: Judi (-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 « junkie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Jarod
Jarod
47,865 corpus weight
- jeunot
jeunot
47,864 corpus weight
- Judi
Judi
47,862 corpus weight
- junkie
junkie
47,861 corpus weight
- kabbale
kabbale
47,860 corpus weight
- kaka
kaka
47,859 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « junkie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | junkie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʒœn.ki\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,140 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « junkie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
junkie is uncommon French at frequency #52,140 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʒœn.ki\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne présentant une dépendance à une drogue (en particulier à une drogue dure).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for junkie in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is junkie, spelled J-U-N-K-I-E.
Definition
- 1Personne présentant une dépendance à une drogue (en particulier à une drogue dure).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how junkie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Moi, je consomme une fois par jour, maximum. J’ai le contrôle. C’est facile, ici, d’avoir le contrôle, en tout cas pour moi. Mais si je prenais le métro pis que je retournais là-bas, je serais junkie certain…
Je suis pas une junkie !
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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