jonkey?
The answer was "jonquil" and the contestant pronounced it "zhon-kee".
Which I suppose is how the French say it, but I have never heard an American say it that way. Nor has my Merriam-Webster, which only gives jä]nkwl, ]k- sometimes j as options (john-kwil, johng-kwil, jun-kwil).
Even Francophile Alex had a hard time recognizing it...
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