justice

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The English entry for justice is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈd͡ʒʌs.tɪs/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,141 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for justice, with forms such as "jjustice", "jsutice", and "jusitce". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Justin", "justify", "Justine", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English justice, from Old French justise, justice (Modern French justice), from Latin iūstitia (“righteousness, equity”), from iūstus (“just”), from iūs (“right”), from Proto-Italic *jowos, perhaps literally "sacred formula", a word peculiar to … Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is justice, spelled J-U-S-T-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.