justifiable
"justifiable" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“justifiable” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #24,214. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,214
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - That can be justified.
Corpus desk
Index EN-justifiable · justifiable · English
justifiable · rank #24,214 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #24,214
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH jurisprudence
Nearest frequency peer: jurisprudence (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “justifiable”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- jobless
jobless
75,791 corpus weight
- Joo
Joo
75,789 corpus weight
- jurispruden…
jurisprudence
75,788 corpus weight
- justifiable
justifiable
75,787 corpus weight
- kei
kei
75,786 corpus weight
- Kellogg
Kellogg
75,785 corpus weight
What this shows “justifiable” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | justifiable |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #24,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “justifiable”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around justifiable, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #24,214 among 796 “J” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for justifiable, with forms such as "jjustifiable", "jsutifiable", and "jusitfiable". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "justifiably", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French justifiable. By surface analysis, justify + -able. The correct English form is justifiable, spelled J-U-S-T-I-F-I-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1That can be justified.
- 2Describing an illegal and intentional act that is nevertheless not blameworthy, for example because its positive consequences outweighed the bad. Distinguished from excusable, describing an involuntary illegal act.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how justifiable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonyms: defensible, excusable
It was at all times clear that, from the point of view of the idea it conveys to us, every motion must be considered only as a relative motion. Returning to the illustration we have frequently used of the embankment and the railway carriage, we can express the fact of the motion here taking place in the following two forms, both of which are equally justi…
Etymology
From Middle French justifiable. By surface analysis, justify + -able.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jjustifiable
- jsutifiable
- jusitfiable
- jusstifiable
- justfiiable
- justifaible
- justiffiable
- justifiabble
- justifiabel
- justifiablle
- justifialbe
- justifibale
- justifiible
- justiifable
- justtifiable
- jutsifiable
- ujstifiable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of justifiable - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).