# judgment

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒ.mənt/ · frequency rank #4,459

## Definitions
1. The act of judging.
2. The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely.
3. The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
4. The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge.
5. The final award; the last sentence.

## Etymology
From Middle English juggement, borrowed from Old French jugement, from Late Latin iūdicāmentum, from Latin iūdicō. Partially displaced doom. By surface analysis, judge + -ment.

## Easily confused with
- **judgmental** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/judgment-vs-judgmental)
- **judgement** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/judgement-vs-judgment)

## Common misspellings (13)
`jdugment`, `jjudgment`, `juddgment`, `judgemnt`, `judggment`, `judgmennt`, `judgmentt`, `judgmetn`, `judgmment`, `judgmnet`, `judmgent`, `jugdment`, `ujdgment`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/judgment