jus gentium
/jʊs ˈd͡ʒɛnsi.əm/
"jus-gentium" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“jus gentium” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The law of nations; international law.
Corpus desk
Index EN-jus-gentium · jus gentium · English
jus gentium · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "J" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jus gentium |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /jʊs ˈd͡ʒɛnsi.əm/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “jus gentium” in English
Rare enough to double-check
jus gentium is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /jʊs ˈd͡ʒɛnsi.əm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The law of nations; international law.".
jus gentium doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin iūs gentium. See the calque law of nations for more. The correct English form is jus gentium, spelled J-U-S- -G-E-N-T-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1The law of nations; international law.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jus gentium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This was always law in all states, as part of jus gentium, for the fact of a people building a wall round their town was looked upon as an assumption of independent power, and significative of claims inconsistent with or dangerous to the sovereigns.
The Islamic law of nations is part of the corpus of Islamic law, just as the original jus gentium was a branch of municipal Roman law.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin iūs gentium. See the calque law of nations for more.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.